177 Quotes by Studs Terkel

The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.

The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.

For the next century, we've got to put together what we so carelessly tore apart with so little concern for those who were gonna follow us. ... You've got to sound off.

We hear the term independent contractors in Iraq. Independent contractors? Mercenaries!

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.

There are nascent stirrings in the neighborhood and in the field, articulated by non-celebrated people who bespeak the dreams of their fellows. It may be catching. Unfortunately, it is not covered on the six o'clock news.

My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat.

The issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.

One day I visited a guy who had made a fortune as a broker. He was sitting in his office with his computer. I hire people from here and make deals from this room, he told me. Then he took me to the trading room. Nobody was talking to anybody else, the place was silent as a tomb, they were all sitting there watching their terminals - a great word, terminal. I tell you, it scares the crap out of me.