26 Quotes by Meridel Le Sueur

A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.

Money is only money, beans tonight and steak tomorrow. So long as you can look yourself in the eye.

The people always know that some of the grain will be good, some of the crop will be saved, some will return and bear the strength of the kernel, that from the bloodiest year some survive to outfox the frost.

Growth is not concerned with itself.

No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.

To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man.

You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.

Each generation must go further than the last or what’s the use in it?