Studs Terkel Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.”

“I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.”

“Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor.”

“Nonetheless, do I have respect for people who believe in the hereafter? Of course I do. I might add, perhaps even a touch of envy too, because of the solace.”

“People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.”

“I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.”

“I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.”

“But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.”

“I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.”

“I want a language that speaks the truth.”