John Dos PassosThinkers

Complacency is the great enemy of intelligence.

Nationalism is the one thing that enslaves people more than any other servitude of war.

New York City is home to more wickedness in one block than there was in a square mile in Nineveh, and how long do you think the Lord God of Sabbath will take to destroy New York City? No longer than it took him to destroy the Tower of Babel: seven seconds.

Radio is the triumph of illiteracy.

The Satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible to get relief.