Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Josephine Herbst

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Josephine Herbst.
Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Josephine Herbst

Josephine Herbst was an American writer and journalist, active from 1923 to near the time of her death. She was a radical with communist leanings, who "incorporate[d] the philosophy of socialism into her fiction" and "aligned herself with the political Left". She wrote "proletarian novels" conceived along the party line, "in Marxist terms" and described as a "subtle blend of art and propaganda."

The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern. — © Josephine Herbst
The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.
No one ever understood disaster until it came.
The world comes second hand - fifth hand - to us and the illusion that it is fresh because it is shown as a picture of an actual place or is given as a 'true account' by some reporter who claims to have been 'there' divides man into incalculable parts without any true center.
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