“ If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin, were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into 'I,' and cuts you off forever from the 'we.' ”
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939). copy citation
| Author | John Steinbeck |
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| Source | The Grapes of Wrath |
| Topic | individualism inequality owning |
| Date | 1939 |
| Language | English |
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