“If the thing they were fighting for was important enough to die for then it was also important enough for them to be thinking about it in the last minutes of their lives. That stood to reason. Life is awfully… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share
Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for… Democracy means that people can say what theywant to.… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share
I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of. — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
“They died crying in their minds like little babies. They forgot the thing they were fighting for the thing they were dying for. They thought about things a man can understand. They died yearning for the face of a friend. They died whimpering for the voice of a mother a father a wife a child. They died with their hearts… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share
Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them. — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
“There ought to be at least as much common sense about living and dying as there is about going to the grocery store and… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
“Have you ever noticed how many fences there're getting to be? And the signs they got on them: no hunting, no hiking, no admission,… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving. — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
“What the hell does liberty mean anyhow? It's just a word like house or table or any other word. Only it's a special kind of word. A guy says house and he can point to a house to prove it. But a guy says come on let's fight for liberty and he can't show you liberty. He can't prove the… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share
Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all. — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
