"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.












More John Steinbeck quotes
"It's a long slow process for a human to die. We kill a cow, and it is dead as soon as the meat is eaten, but a man's life dies as a commotion in a sti...
"Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes, it'll on'y be one. If I go ahead on all of 'em, it's too much. You got to live ahea...
"It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the conco...
"Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English sparrow, the house fly and the moth,...
"Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too.
"In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea c...
"Morning seems to come earlier every year I live.
"Humans are caught -- in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and genero...
"You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.
"Casy said solemnly, "This here ol' man jus' lived a life an' just died out of it. I don't know whether he was good or bad, but that don't matter much....
"Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.
"Beside them, little pot-bellied men in light suits and panama hats; clean, pink men with puzzled, worried eyes, with restless eyes. Worried because fo...
"This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economi...
"Jus' live the day. Don' worry yaself.