John Steinbeck, The Grapes Of Wrath Quotes
If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.
It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.
Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only love people.
You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.
The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.
The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.
Well, we all got to make a livin'.""Yeah, " Tom said. "On'y I wisht they was some way to make her 'thout takin' her away from somebody else.
I wanta buy stuff. Stuff I don't need... Stuff settin' out there, you jus' feel like buyin' it whether you need it or not.-Uncle John
We're sorry. It's not us. It's the monster. The bank isn't a man. The bank isn't like a man.Yes, but the bank is only made of men.
And the great owners, who had become through the might of their holdings both more and less than men
They had long ago found out that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.
We still go where we want, even if we got to crawl for the right.' - Tom Joad (Jr.)
...and the break would never come as long as fear can turn to wrath.
It gives a fella relief to tell, but it jus' spreads out his sin.
Her face looked for the answer that is always concealed in language.
An' I got to thinkin', on'y it wasn't thinkin', it was deeper down than thinkin'.
