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Top 10 B. Traven Quotes (2025 Update)

B. Traven Quote: “It isn’t the gold that changes man, it is the power which gold gives to man that changes the soul of man. This power, though, is only imaginary. If not recognized by other men, it does not exist.”

1. “It isn’t the gold that changes man, it is the power which gold gives to man that changes the soul of man. This power, though, is only imaginary. If not recognized by other men, it does not exist.”

B. Traven Quote: “The treasure which you think not worth taking trouble and pains to find, this alone is the real treasure you are longing for all your life. The glittering treasure you are hunting for day and night lies buried on the other side of that hill yonder.”

2. “The treasure which you think not worth taking trouble and pains to find, this alone is the real treasure you are longing for all your life. The glittering treasure you are hunting for day and night lies buried on the other side of that hill yonder.”

B. Traven Quote: “The prison was very important – as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.”

3. “The prison was very important – as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.”

B. Traven Quote: “If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.”

4. “If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.”

B. Traven Quote: “The creative person should have no other biography than his works.”

5. “The creative person should have no other biography than his works.”

B. Traven Quote: “If you wish to survive, you have to win the battle.”

6. “If you wish to survive, you have to win the battle.”

B. Traven Quote: “The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.”

7. “The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.”

B. Traven Quote: “The air bit into your lungs because it was filled with poisonous gas escaping from the refineries. That sting in the air which made breathing so hard and unpleasant and choked your throat constantly meant that people were making money- much money.”

8. “The air bit into your lungs because it was filled with poisonous gas escaping from the refineries. That sting in the air which made breathing so hard and unpleasant and choked your throat constantly meant that people were making money- much money.”

B. Traven Quote: “There is no getting used to pain and suffering. You become only hard-boiled, and you lose a certain capacity to be impressed by feelings. Yet no human being will ever become used to sufferings to such an extent that his heart will cease to cry out that eternal prayer of all human beings: “I hope that my Liberator comes!” He is the master of the world, he who can make his coins out of the hope of slaves.”

9. “There is no getting used to pain and suffering. You become only hard-boiled, and you lose a certain capacity to be impressed by feelings. Yet no human being will ever become used to sufferings to such an extent that his heart will cease to cry out that eternal prayer of all human beings: “I hope that my Liberator comes!” He is the master of the world, he who can make his coins out of the hope of slaves.”

B. Traven Quote: “That which was tortured yesterday is the powerful church today and a religion in decay tomorrow. The deplorable thing, the most deplorable thing, is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.”

10. “That which was tortured yesterday is the powerful church today and a religion in decay tomorrow. The deplorable thing, the most deplorable thing, is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.”

B. Traven Quote: “It is always more convenient to dream of what might be.”

11. “It is always more convenient to dream of what might be.”

B. Traven Quote: “The class I belong to always has to wait and wait, stand long nights and days in long files to get a cup of coffee and a slice of bread. Everybody in the world, official or boss, takes it for granted that our sort of people have ages, of time to waste. It is different with those who have money. They can arrange everything with money. Therefore they never have to wait. We who cannot pay with cold cash have to pay with our time instead.”

12. “The class I belong to always has to wait and wait, stand long nights and days in long files to get a cup of coffee and a slice of bread. Everybody in the world, official or boss, takes it for granted that our sort of people have ages, of time to waste. It is different with those who have money. They can arrange everything with money. Therefore they never have to wait. We who cannot pay with cold cash have to pay with our time instead.”

B. Traven Quote: “Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!”

13. “Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges. I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!”

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