One Man's Initiation Quotes

“With people who are young and aren't scared you can do lots.”
― John Dos Passos, One Man's Initiation-1917

“Why, lies are like a sticky juice overspreading the world, a living, growing flypaper to catch and gum the wings of every human soul. . . And the little helpless buzzings of honest, liberal, kindly people, aren't they like the thin little noise flies make when they're caught?”
― John Dos Passos, One Man's Initiation: 1917

“Think, man, think of all the oceans of lies through all the ages that must have been necessary to make this possible! Think of this new particular vintage of lies that has been so industriously pumped out of the press and the pulpit. Doesn't it stagger you?”
― John Dos Passos, One Man's Initiation-1917

“With people like that we needn't despair of civilisation,”
― John Dos Passos, One Man's Initiation-1917