“Liberalism, in the case of the Jew, means internationalism. If you listen to Jews discuss Jews, you will find they are money-minded, very sharp in practice. The Jews lack the fine integrity which at last is endorsed, and to a certain degree followed, by lawyers of other nationalities. The Jew has been in Germany for a thousand years, and he is still a Jew. He has been in America for all of 200 years, and he has not faded into a pure American by any means — and he will not.”
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.”
Theodore Dreiser
“I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.”
Theodore Dreiser
“I acknowledge the Furies. I believe in them. I have heard the disastrous beating of their wings.”
Theodore Dreiser
“If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.”
Theodore Dreiser
“Among the forces which sweep and play throughout the universe, untutored man is but a wisp in the wind. Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guid...”
Theodore Dreiser