Dalton Trumbo Quotes
- Just say ‘mister I’m sorry, I got no time to die, I’m too busy’ and then turn and run like hell. If they say coward why don’t pay any attention because it’s your job to live not to die. If they talk about dying for principles that are bigger than life, you say ‘mister you’re a liar. Nothing is bigger than life’. There’s nothing noble in death. What s noble about lying in the ground and rotting? What’s noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What’s noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What’s noble about being an idiot? What’s noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What’s noble about being dead? Because when you’re dead, mister, it’s all over. It’s the end. You’re less than a dog, less than a rat, less than a bee or an ant, less than a white maggot crawling around on a dungheap. You’re dead, mister, and you died for nothing. - View Quote Details on Just say ‘mister I’m sorry, I got no time to…
- No sir, anybody who went out and got into the front line trenches to fight for liberty was a goddamn fool and the guy who got him there was a liar. Next time anybody came gabbling to him about liberty - what did he mean next time? There wasn’t going to be any next time for him. But the hell with that. If there could be a next time and somebody said “let’s fight for liberty”, he would say “mister my life is important. I’m not a fool and when I swap my life for liberty I’ve got to know in advance what liberty is, and whose idea of liberty we’re talking about and just how much of that liberty we’re going to have. And what’s more mister - are you as much interested in liberty as you want me to be? And maybe too much liberty will be as bad as too little liberty and I think you’re a goddamn fourflusher talking through your hat, and I’ve already decided that I like the liberty I’ve got right here. The liberty to walk and see and hear and talk and eat and sleep with my girt. I think I like that liberty better than fighting for a lot of things we won’t get and ending up without any liberty at all. Ending up dead and rotting before my life is even begun good or ending up like a side of beef. Thank you mister. You fight for liberty. Me, I don’t care for some.” - View Quote Details on No sir, anybody who went out and got into the…
- There’s nothing noble about dying. Not even if you die for honor. Not even if you die the greatest hero the world ever saw. Not even if you’re so great your name will never be forgotten and who’s that great? The most important thing is your life, little guys. You’re worth nothing dead except for speeches. Don’t let them kid you any more. Pay no attention when they tap you on the shoulder and say come along we’ve got to fight for liberty, or whatever their word is. There’s always a word. - View Quote Details on There’s nothing noble about dying. Not even if you die…
- Never again to wiggle your toes. What a hell of a thing, what a wonderful, beautiful thing, to wiggle your toes. - View Quote Details on Never again to wiggle your toes. What a hell of…
About Dalton Trumbo
Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976 ) was an American screenwriter and novelist, and a member of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee’s investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry.
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