Passos

Famous quotes containing the word passos:

    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.
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

    The people of this country are too tolerant. There’s no other country in the world where they’d allow it... After all we built up this country and then we allow a lot of foreigners, the scum of Europe, the offscourings of Polish ghettos to come and run it for us.
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

    But what’s the good of freedom? What can you do with it? What one wants is to live well and have a beautiful house and be respected by people.
    —John Dos Passos (1896–1970)