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The worst day-to-day operators of businesses are bankers.
— Studs Terkel
A man? If I need a man, wouldn't you think I'd have one of my own? Must I wait for you?
— Studs Terkel
All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.
— Studs Terkel
Taking life seriously requires taking death seriously.
— Studs Terkel
If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.
— Studs Terkel
What I remember most of those times is that poverty creates desperation, and desperation creates violence.
— Studs Terkel
I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.
— Studs Terkel
I want a language that speaks the truth.
— Studs Terkel
The issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.
— Studs Terkel
The Grand Illusion, one of the great war films of all time.
— Studs Terkel
Because a book is a life, like one man is a life.
— Studs Terkel
Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
— Studs Terkel
You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.
— Studs Terkel
So, my credo consists of the pursuit and the act. One without the other is self-indulgence.
— Studs Terkel
I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
— Studs Terkel
The poor are so busy trying to survive from one day to the next, they haven't the time or energy to keep score.
— Studs Terkel
Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?
— Studs Terkel
But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.
— Studs Terkel
To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.
— Studs Terkel
I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real
— Studs Terkel
Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.
— Studs Terkel
I'm celebrated for celebrating the uncelebrated.
— Studs Terkel
We hear the term independent contractors in Iraq. Independent contractors? Mercenaries!
— Studs Terkel
I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
— Studs Terkel
I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.
— Studs Terkel
I have a big mouth, and I never met a petition I didn't like, so of course in the McCarthy days I got in trouble.
— Studs Terkel
An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.
— Studs Terkel
So people are ready. I feel hopeful in that sense.
— Studs Terkel
I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.
— Studs Terkel
I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.
— Studs Terkel
I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.
— Studs Terkel
Don't be an examiner, be the interested inquirer.
— Studs Terkel
