The dignity is in the worker, not in the job. Howard Fast More Quotes by Howard Fast More Quotes From Howard Fast I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered] Howard Fast mothermen Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up. Howard Fast growing-upchancekids A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill. Howard Fast mountaindistancestills Only people who suffer show the ravages of age. Howard Fast sufferingagepeople Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever Howard Fast yiddishnervesarrogance And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic Zen Buddhist or a Jewish Zen Buddhist. Zen is a quiet thing. It listens. Howard Fast buddhistcatholicpromise Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin. Howard Fast doctrinescripturereligion Since I believe that a person's philosophical point of view has little meaning if it is not matched by being and action, I found myself willingly wed to an endless series of unpopular causes, experiences which I feel enriched my writing as much as they depleted other aspects of my life. Howard Fast my-lifemyselflifebelieve I was part of a generation that believed in socialism and finally found that belief corroded and destroyed. That is not renouncing Communism or socialism. It's reaching a certain degree of enlightenment about what the Soviet Union practices. Howard Fast generationsocialismcommunismbelief To be dogmatic about a cause you believe in at the age of 20 or 30 is not unusual. But to be dogmatic at age 55 or 60 shows a lack of any learning capacity. Howard Fast youlearningagebelieve The only thing that infuriates me is that I have more unwritten stories in me than I can conceivably write in a lifetime. Howard Fast moreonlymei-can Like most thoughtful people who watch what's going on in Washington, venting is very necessary. Howard Fast goinglikethoughtfulpeople Americans have no sense of history. And not much memory. They don't remember what happened yesterday. Howard Fast memoryyesterdayrememberhistory I was in federal prison in West Virginia for three months for contempt of Congress for a refusing to comply with a request of a Congressional committee of Congress, the House Un-American Activities Committee. Howard Fast congressthreeprisonhouse After the Spanish Civil War against Franco, a group of us got together: a group of well-to-do people who were sympathetic to the lost cause of a Republican state. We bought a convent in Toulouse and converted it into a hospital run by the Unitarians. It took care of the Spanish refugees who fled to Toulouse. Howard Fast caretogetherwarpeople My books were attacked constantly by the Communist Party for not hewing to the Party line. I have never hewed to a Party line of any kind. Howard Fast booksnevercommunistparty I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won't be bloody like the Russian Revolution. Howard Fast thoughtalwayssocialismrevolution A man who will traduce those who stood with him in battle is not worth much. Howard Fast worthwillmanbattle In L.A., you work like hell because there is nothing else to do, unless you're cheating on your wife. Howard Fast youwifeworkcheating A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion. Howard Fast likehatewatchesreligion
