Quotes by Studs Terkel

Studs Terkel

‘Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph.

Cat

Curiosity

Epitaph

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

Library

Life Is

Needs

An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.

Agnostic

Atheist

Belief

At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public’s pocket are the order of the day – indeed, officially proclaimed as virtue – the poet must play the madcap to keep his balance. And ours.

Balance

Order

Play

Cannot Hannah Arendt’s ‘banality of evil’ be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?

Banality

Evil

Subjects

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It’s the most theatrically corrupt.

Chicago

Cities

City Of Chicago

Don’t be an examiner, be the interested inquirer.

Inquirers

For the next century, we’ve got to put together what we so carelessly tore apart with so little concern for those who were gonna follow us. … You’ve got to sound off.

Littles

Sound

Together

Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.

Gone

Government

Phones

How come you don’t work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

Eight

Fighting

Work

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Agnostic

Air

Alzheimer's

Animal

Argument

Atheism

Atheist

Atoms

Balance

Banality

Be Good

Beauty

Belief

Believe

Bigs

Black And White

Book

Brother

Buttons

Buying

Cancer

Car

Cat

Celebrate

Censorship

Chicago

Cities

City Of Chicago

Communication

Communist

Country

Curiosity

Dare

Debate

Democracy

Despair

Differences

Doctors

Dream

Drinking

Dying

Easy

Eight

Energy

Epitaph

Evil

Faith

Fighting

Friday

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Quotes by Studs Terkel

Studs Terkel

‘Curiosity never killed this cat’ — that’s what I’d like as my epitaph.

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.

At a time when pimpery, lick-spittlery, and picking the public’s pocket are the order of the day – indeed, officially proclaimed as virtue – the poet must play the madcap to keep his balance. And ours.

Cannot Hannah Arendt’s ‘banality of evil’ be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It’s the most theatrically corrupt.

Don’t be an examiner, be the interested inquirer.

For the next century, we’ve got to put together what we so carelessly tore apart with so little concern for those who were gonna follow us. … You’ve got to sound off.

Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.

How come you don’t work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

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