We vainly fancy ourselves above the ugly informing and…

“I've grown old with this century; there's not much left of either of us.”

— Penelope Lively

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful…

— Warren Farrell

Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was beneath contempt.…

— William Gibson

When I made Spartacus during the McCarthy Era, we were losing our freedom. It was an awful, awful way. McCarthy saw Communists everywhere, in…

— Kirk Douglas

“somehow Acheson had been scarred during the McCarthy era; it was not so much that he had done anything wrong as the fact that…

— David Halberstam

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists…

— Ken Follett

“Like the victims of the historical Inquisition and its other modern equivalents, the men and women who were targeted during the McCarthy era were…

— Jonathan Kirsch

The portrayal of Senator Joe McCarthy as a wild-eyed demagogue destroying innocent lives is sheer liberal hobgoblinism. Liberals weren't cowering in fear during the…

— Ann Coulter

“There are significant analogues between the American fear of Communism during the McCarthy era and the American fear of Islam at the beginning of…

— Ben Daniel

Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of the male…

— Andrea Dworkin

“American foreign policy was a mirror image of Russian foreign policy: whatever the Russians did, we did in reverse. American domestic policies were conducted…

— Archibald MacLeish

“There is light in the shadow just as there is shadow in the light and although many disclaim these shadows as everything unpleasant in…

— Kensi Brianne Smith

“I continue to marvel at the reluctancy of people to look into the mirror and see all the darkness that's within them: all the…

— C. JoyBell C

“Such a nasty bruise,” he says, staring straight into my eyes. I am stunned he can see it. Delicate to the touch and tender…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson