Dalton Trumbo

“The blacklist was a time of evil... no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil.”

“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”

“There are no good guys and bad guys. There are only victims.”

“When one person is enslaved, we are all enslaved.”

“Ideas are very dangerous things. You are not really a free man until you have tried to entertain the idea that you may be wrong.”

“Dishonesty in a good cause is far more honorable than honesty in a bad one.”

“The minute you say 'freedom' you have to mean freedom for everyone.”

“And what is democracy? It is the line that forms on the right. It is the don't in don't shove. It is the hole in the stuffed shirt through which the sawdust slowly trickles.”

“There was a time when I had a lot of friends, but I'm not so sure I have any now. It's a penalty you pay for taking a stand.”

“The tragedy of the blacklist was not that it ended the careers of some people, but that it damaged the careers of so many others.”

“A man can be right and be president, but he can't be both at the same time.”

“I don't think there's any such thing as a 'good' war. There are sometimes necessary wars. And I think that's the most you can say for a war.”

“Patriotism is a word that has been stolen from us and used to mean obedience.”

“It is a war that nobody wants to fight and yet they are fighting it.”

“The hero is the one who volunteers to die for something he is not sure is worth it.”