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Christina Stead Quotes - Page 4

All Quotes Age Art Finance Gold Hypocrisy Lying Making Money Money Old Age Passion
It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.

It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.

Christina Stead
Men, Hypocrisy, Boots
Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.63, Head of Zeus

If equity and human natural reason were allowed there would be no law, there would be no lawyers.

Christina Stead
Law, Would Be, Reason
Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.188, Open Road Media

All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.

Christina Stead
Money, Class, Shifting
Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.32, Open Road Media

Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift.

Christina Stead
Uplifting, Character, Order

A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.

Christina Stead
Lying, Race, Political

The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones, trees and rocks; and he, wretchedly waiting in the exterior halls, could not even get his finger on one tiny, tiny lever.

Christina Stead
Art, Clouds, Rocks
Christina Stead, Anita Segerberg (1994). “Christina Stead, Selected Fiction and Nonfiction”, UQP

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