Quotes from John Dos Passos

The addition of the typewriter to the printing-press has given a new and horrible impetus to the spread of half-baked thought.

That is Baroja's world: dismal, ironic, the streets of towns where industrial life sits heavy on the neck of a race as little adapted to it as any in Europe.

admire the United States not for what we were but for what we might become. Self-governing democracy was not an established creed, but a program for growth.

y. I told them to admire us for the hope we still have that there is enough goodness in man to use the omnipotence science has given him to ennoble his life on earth instead of degrading it. Self government, through dangers and distortions and failures, is the American cause. Faith in self government, when all is said and done, is faith in the eventual goodness of man

The old Romans knew better; to keep people quiet they filled their bellies.

a nation in which the centralized power and the separate communities work only to nullify each other.

Think, man, think of all the oceans of lies through all the ages that must have been necessary to make this possible! Think of this new particular vintage of lies that has been so industriously pumped out of the press and the pulpit. Doesn't it stagger you? Martin

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you.

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.