Tamoszius Quotes

It’s simply some boss who proposes to add a little to his income.

After Jurgis had been there awhile he would know that the plants were simply honeycombed with rottenness of that sort—

The bosses grafted off the men, and they grafted off each other; and some day the superintendent would find out about the boss, and then he would graft off the boss.

Here was Durham’s, for instance, owned by a man who was trying to make as much money out of it as he could, and did not care in the least how he did it;

And underneath him, ranged in ranks and grades like an army, were managers and superintendents and foremen, each one driving the man next below him and trying to squeeze out of him as much work as possible.

There was no loyalty or decency anywhere about it, there was no place in it where a man counted for anything against a dollar.

And worse than there being no decency, there was not even any honesty.

And as for Tamoszius—well, they had waited a long time, and they could wait a little longer. But day by day the music of Tamoszius’ violin became more passionate and heartbreaking;

“Come now, brother, give us a tune.”