“ They feel guilty for having survived so they pretend the bad things never happened Exodus (1960) screenplay Dalton Trumbo
“ The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people. Dalton Trumbo
“ He was the future he was a perfect picture of the future and they were afraid to let anyone see what the future was like. Already they were looking ahead they were figuring the future and somewhere in… Dalton Trumbo
“ 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 a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up… Dalton Trumbo
“ Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility. Dalton Trumbo
“ 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. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happe… Dalton Trumbo
“ He could almost hear the wail of pain that went up from his heart. It was a sharp terrible personal pain the kind of pain that comes only when someone to whom you have never done any harm turns on you… Dalton Trumbo
“ They are talking like fools. They are saying that two and two make nothing. They are saying that a man will have to die to in order to protect his life. If you agree to fight you agree to die. Now if… Dalton Trumbo
“ How could you believe or disbelieve anything anymore? Four maybe five million men killed and none of them wanting to die while hundreds maybe thousands were left crazy or blind or crippled and couldn’… Dalton Trumbo
“ An equation: 40,000 dead young men = 3,000 tons of bone and flesh, 124,000 pounds of brain matter, 50,000 gallons of blood, 1,840,000 years of life that will never be lived, 100,000 children that will… Dalton Trumbo
“ 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 sa… Dalton Trumbo
“ There ought to be at least as much common sense about living and dying as there is about going to the grocery store and buying a loaf of bread. Dalton Trumbo
“ 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. Dalton Trumbo
“ New nursery rhymes for new times. HIckory dickery dock my daddy's nuts from shelshock. Humpty dumpty thought he was wise till gas came along and hurned out his eyes. A dillar a dollar a ten o-clock sc… Dalton Trumbo
“ Then there was this freedom the little guys were always getting killed for. Was it freedom from another country? Freedom from work or disease or death? Freedom from your mother-in-law? Please mister g… Dalton Trumbo
“ Of course a lot of guys were ashamed. Somebody said let's go out and fight for liberty and so they went out and got killed without ever once thinking of liberty. And what kind of liberty were they fig… Dalton Trumbo
“ 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… Dalton Trumbo
