C.e.m. Joad Quotes

#1. Why should it be illegal to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away?

George Carlin

#2. Look'n for a job? this is when the truck driver asks joad what he is doing and i think it indecates that this story revolves around a very hard time

John Steinbeck

#3. A girl was just a girl to you. They wasn't nothin' to you. But to me they was holy vessels. I was savin' their souls. An' here with all that responsibility on me I'd just get 'em frothin' with the Holy Sperit, an' then I'd take 'em out in the grass." "Maybe I should of been a preacher,' said Joad.

John Steinbeck

#4. In the most civilized and progressive countries freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle.

C.E.M. Joad

#5. The denial of racism is a form of racism itself.

Tim Wise

#6. There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.

C.E.M. Joad

#7. I truly believe the art's larger than the artist. Who cares about John Steinbeck? I care about the Joad family.

Andre Dubus III

#8. I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.

Tracy Kidder

#9. The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.

C.E.M. Joad

#10. What do you believe reveals more about a man's character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it?

Aaron B. Powell

#11. Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.

C.E.M. Joad

#12. We still go where we want, even if we got to crawl for the right.' - Tom Joad (Jr.)

John Steinbeck

#13. Joad rolled the coat up more tightly. "An old turtle,' he said. "Picked him up on the road. An old bulldozer. Thought I'd take 'im to my little brother. Kids like turtles.

John Steinbeck

#14. It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.

C.E.M. Joad

#15. All things are delicately interconnected.

Jenny Holzer

#16. 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.

John Steinbeck

#17. My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms,
the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely
and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them
because I know that I am bored.

C.E.M. Joad

#18. Lead 'em around and around,' said Joad. "Sling 'em in the irrigation ditch. Tell 'em they'll burn in hell if they don't think like you. What the hell you want to lead 'em someplace for? Jus' lead 'em.

John Steinbeck

#19. The highway is alive tonight But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light With the ghost of old Tom Joad.

Bruce Springsteen

#20. But emotion had come upon him after all. Not for fifty billion people. What in Time did he care for fifty billion people? There was just one. One person.

Isaac Asimov

#21. It all depends what you mean by ...

C.E.M. Joad

#22. Automatic praise is a mere succession of noises.

C.E.M. Joad

#23. My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath,' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

Jane Fonda

#24. A good soul like a good body should be as unobtrusive as possible; in so far as it functions properly, it should not be noticed for good or for ill.

C.E.M. Joad

#25. God is the Supreme Musician. It is He who is playing with us, on us and in us. We cannot separate God from His music. The universal Consciousness is constantly being played by the Supreme Himself, and is constantly growing into the Supreme Music.

Sri Chinmoy

#26. War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty and places in positions of power the vulgar and base.

C.E.M. Joad