Quotable: John Steinbeck on toxic culture

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Sabina Becker

“It has always seemed strange to me…The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.”

–John Steinbeck

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