We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God. Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
But 'Thou mayest!'! Why, that makes a man great, that gives him stature with the gods, for in his weakness and his… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And I feel that I am a man. And I feel that a man is a very important thing - maybe more… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Down towards one end of the village, among the small houses, a dog complained about the cold and the loneliness. He raised… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, even our religion, so that some nations have substituted… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“This is not theology. I have no bent towards gods. But i have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I’d think there are degrees of greatness,” Adam said. “I don’t think so,” said Samuel. “That would be like saying there is a little… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“He was forever inventing a new way of doing an old thing and doing it better and quicker, but he never in his whole… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“You come back a changed man. Samuel, you don’t change him. He changes you. I can see the look of him in your face.”… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image