John Steinbeck Quotes About Hate

Quotes about: Hate

• I find out of long experience that I admire all nations and hate all governments

  John Steinbeck

  Hate, Government, Long

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.51, Penguin

• I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

  John Steinbeck

  Photography, Hate, Cameras

  John Steinbeck (1989). “Steinbeck: A Life in Letters”, p.65, Penguin

• Some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread.

  John Steinbeck

  Hate, Heart, Men

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.126, Penguin

• I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost.

  John Steinbeck

  Hate, Fighting, Mind

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.116, Penguin

• Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

  John Steinbeck

  Hate, Men, Knowing

  Journal entry in 1938. Introduction by Susan Shillinglaw to "Of Mice and Men", p. VII, 1994.

• All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight.

  John Steinbeck

  Love, Mother, Hate

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.116, Penguin

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

  John Steinbeck

  Hate, Routine Life, Hard

• We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

  John Steinbeck

  Change, Hate, Growth

  John Steinbeck (2003). “America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction”, p.265, Penguin

• It must be a hard thing to kill a man you don't know and don't hate.

  John Steinbeck

  Hate, War, Men

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.126, Penguin

• One can't be happy as I have been for very long. There's a law against it. I have worked hard and enjoyed my work and it is the punishment of man to hate his work. Sooner or later I will have work that I hate.

  John Steinbeck

  Hate, Work, Men

• Hate cannot live alone. It must have love as a trigger, a goad, or a stimulant.

  John Steinbeck

  Hate, Triggers, Stimulants

  John Steinbeck (1952). “East of Eden, And, The Wayward Bus”

• Pictures... are also opinions... [they] set down what the camera operator sees and he sees what he wants to see and what he loves and hates and pities and is proud of.

  John Steinbeck

  Hate, Cameras, Want

• Every man in a bank hates what the bank does and yet the bank does it.

  John Steinbeck

  Hate, Men, Doe

  John Steinbeck (2006). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.81, Penguin

• I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.

  John Steinbeck

  Wall, Hate, Fighting

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.51, Penguin

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