Quotes by John Dos Passos
“Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with.”— John Dos Passos
“Americanism: using the name of the ideals of the dead to tie the hands of the living.”— John Dos Passos
“In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present.”— John Dos Passos
“The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print.”— John Dos Passos
“It's easy to be a martyr in some causes, but asserting the rights of memory is almost heroism.”— John Dos Passos