Dalton Trumbo Quotes

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• Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and…
• Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy…
• There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.
• You show me a politician with his heels ten feet in the air, and by Judas priest, Ill show you an honest politician.
• Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.
• I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
• A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign…
• The blacklist was a time of evil...no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil...[Looking] back on this time...it will do…
• The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.
• There's a game out there, and the stakes are high. And the guy who runs it figures the averages all day long and all night…
• This blacklisting is going to collapse because it is rotten, immoral and illegal. I am one day going to be working openly in the motion…
• One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one
• I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best…
• I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will…
• Now listen, buddy, there are a few corny ideas you got to get out of your head if you're going to fly an airplane. Most…
• Numbers have dehumanized us. Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the toast. Our morning…
• 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…
• The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.
• 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 love.…
• What's so noble about being dead?

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