Howard Fast

Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever

— Howard Fast

A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.

— Howard Fast

“The easiest way to hide a relationship is not to attempt to hide it.”

— Howard Fast

Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.

— Howard Fast

Only people who suffer show the ravages of age.

— Howard Fast

The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.

— Howard Fast

“Let us say that kindness costs me so little and rewards me well.”

— Howard Fast

“When military men take over, honest men dance to the strings they pull. Your life is no longer your own.”

— Howard Fast

Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.

— Howard Fast

“Politicians were beginning to realize that if one cannot have the glory of successful war on foreign soil, one can do almost…

— Howard Fast

“Your life is nothing, just a little makeshift that you play with for a while, a machine that you put to use.…

— Howard Fast

I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent…

— Howard Fast

“You seem damn sure of yourself for a man your age?" "I am as old as I can be at my age.…

— Howard Fast

“It wasn't that they were unpleasant people; indeed, they were the sweetest things ever; they just enjoyed melancholy and seemed to take…

— Howard Fast

“Man is a part of God, or else he is a beast; and beasts know love and fear and hate and hunger--but…

— Howard Fast

And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic…

— Howard Fast

“Perhaps nature rations tears. That would be very sensible. You are born with three million one hundred and seventy-two potential tears, and…

— Howard Fast

“When I kissed her, I felt that my heart would tear through my chest for excitement and wonder, and then I felt…

— Howard Fast

“There is nothing more important than being a man, just a plain, ordinary, human man. I know you think Spartacus is something…

— Howard Fast

“He found himself smiling and talking politely to people who desired to show their respect and admiration for his uniform-instead of ignoring…

— Howard Fast

“Could be off one of your own boats, Lavette," Whittier said. "The crab I mean." Whittier was hostile, contriving his hostility in…

— Howard Fast

“He found himself grinning at her. His nervousness had disappeared, and suddenly he had a sense of his own size, his physical…

— Howard Fast

“The first rule is never to split your forces unless it is necessary to survival. The second rule is to attack if…

— Howard Fast

“Will you keep this?" he asked, holding up the pendant. "Please. Don't show it to your folks. But keep it, please. I'm…

— Howard Fast

“Politics, as he occasionally said, required three unchanging talents and no virtues. More politicians, he claimed, had been destroyed by virtue than…

— Howard Fast

“The revolution goes on; a man does not make the revolution, not a thousand men, not an army and not a party;…

— Howard Fast

“I suppose I have cause you grief and misery at times, but I have never intentionally caused you embarrassment and discomfort.”

— Howard Fast

“Geronimo [is]...an example of our practice of destroying those who oppose us and then honoring them.”

— Howard Fast