John Steinbeck

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

— John Steinbeck

#corrupts #does #fear #loss #perhaps

And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#human-nature #life

Perhaps it takes courage to raise children.. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#parenting #courage

No one who is young is ever going to be old. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#age

It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#life

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#honor #virtue #faith

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#marriage #marriage

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. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#love

Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#men

His ear heard more than what was said to him, and his slow speech had overtones not of thought, but of understanding beyond thought. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#men