All Quotes
2989 quotes in total
“The revolution is the only true expression of the people's will.”
“I have seen the future, and it works.”
“The truth is revolutionary.”
“To understand the world, you must first see it with your own eyes.”
“The struggle for freedom is the struggle of all humanity.”
“History is written by those who make it.”
“There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.”
“The working class has nothing to lose but its chains.”
“The working class and the employing class have nothing in common.”
“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. Travels with Charley (1962)”
“The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. Of Mice and Men (1937), title reference to Robert Burns”
“Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other. Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 1”
“A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ. Travels with Charley (1962)”
“Man itself is as mixed as the clouds, as disharmonious as the sea. The Grapes of Wrath (1939), Ch. 15”
“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen. The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)”
“No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a New England town. Travels with Charley (1962)”
“The mountains are the heart of a country. Travels with Charley (1962)”
“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the oppressed. The Grapes of Wrath (1939), Ch. 15”
“I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence. The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)”
“The Spirit of the Age, I”
“The remedies for all our diseases will be discovered long after we are dead; and the world will be made a fit place to live in, after the death of most of those by whose exertions it will have been made so. It is to be hoped that those who live in those days will look back with sympathy to their known and unknown benefactors. Diary, April 15, 1854, in The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill , Toronto, 1988, vol. 27, p. 668”
“The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. ¶ The very corner”
“All students of man and society who possess that first requisite for so difficult a study, a due sense of its difficulties, are aware that the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for true, as of mistaking part of the truth for the whole. “Coleridge”. London and Westminster Review.”
“A Turk thinks, or used to think (for even Turks are wiser now”
“Granted that any practice causes more pain to animals than it gives pleasure to man; is that practice moral or immoral? And if, exactly in proportion as human beings raise their heads out of the slough of selfishness, they do not with one voice answer 'immoral,' let the morality of the principle of utility be for ever condemned. Dr. Whewell on Moral Philosophy (1852), in Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and Historical , vol. 2, London: John W. Parker and son, 1859, p. 485”
“The possession and the exercise of political, and among others of electoral, rights, is one of the chief instruments both of moral and of intellectual training for the popular mind; and all governments must be regarded as extremely imperfect, until every one who is required to obey the laws, has a voice, or the prospect of a voice, in their enactment and administration. Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform (1859), p. 22”
“That power should be exercised over any portion of mankind without any obligation of consulting them, is only tolerable while they are in an infantine, or a semi”
“There are but few points in which the English, as a people, are entitled to the moral pre”
“It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. On Liberty”
“inbreeding, a mathematical subject is in danger of degeneration. At the inception the style is usually classical; when it shows signs of becoming baroque, then the danger signal is up. It would be easy to give examples, to trace specific evolutions into the baroque and the very high baroque... Whenever this stage is reached the only remedy seems to me to be the rejuvenating return to the source: the reinjection of more or less directly empirical ideas.”