1,374 Quotes by John Steinbeck

No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony.

Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world

Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.

The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.

Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him.

It isn't like the rest of the country - it is like a nation itself - more tolerant than the rest in a curious way. Littleness gets swallowed up here. All the viciousness that makes other cities vicious is sucked up and absorbed in New York.

I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen. It's scary to think about. Point of reference again. When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

For many years we have suckled on fear and fear alone, and there is no good product of fear.

We have never understood why men mount the heads of animals and hang them up to look down on their conquerers. Possibly it feels good to these men to feel superior to animals, but does it not seem that if they were sure of it they would not have to prove it? Often a man who is afraid must constantly demonstrate his courage and, in the case of the hunter, must keep a tangible record of his courage.