154 Quotes by John Dos Passos

With people who are young and aren’t scared you can do lots.

War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don’t do the fighting.

That’s the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.

So many Americans felt that their neighbor had no right to know more than they did.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

Men seemed to have shrunk in stature before the vastness of the mechanical contrivances they had invented. Michael Angelo, da Vinci, Aretino, Cellini; would the strong figures of men ever so dominate the world again? Today everything was congestion, the scurrying of crowds; men had become ant-like. Perhaps it was inevitable that the crowds should sink deeper and deeper in slavery. Whichever won, tyranny from above, or spontaneous organization from below, there could be no individuals. He.

I’ve always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

Bud edged up next to a young man in a butcher’s apron who had a baseball cap on backwards.

I never see the dawn that I don’t say to myself perhaps.