1,374 Quotes by John Steinbeck

Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.

Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.

I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but in common with millions I did dislike hunger and cold.

Only through immitation do we develop toward originality.

I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost.

Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.

Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.

A boy gets to be a man when a man is needed. Remember this thing. I have known boys forty years old because there was no need for a man:

The power of an attitude is amazing