1930s Quotes · Page 2

The labor movement had been pretty much killed in the 1920s, almost destroyed. It revived in the 1930s and made a huge…

— Noam Chomsky

And then they would watch her closely as the dark, coagulated masses took form before her eyes, became flesh and bone, became…

— Philip Sington

I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.

— Gregory Corso

Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their…

— Albert Claude

I'm so fond of abstract design in the style of Vanderbilt and David Hicks and that whole 1970s era. They took the…

— Jenny Packham

In the 1930s, anyone of any sophisticated status owned a cocktail shaker. Distinctive ones are easy to find.

— Roger Stone

If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public…

— Joseph Rykwert

Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought.

— James Bovard

There was a direct jobs program from the Rooselvelt administration in the 1930s. The Justice Department has set up a task force…

— Jesse Jackson

The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end…

— Helen Fisher

I'm very into Louise Brooks, a 1930s icon. I also love Dona Drake. She's a beauty icon and also super smart.

— Taylor Russell

The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it…

— Ron Chernow

Kit Kittredge was an amazing experience because I got to go to Canada, and it was my first era film, so I…

— Madison Davenport

It is possible that, in fact, Trump's call for "America First" (despite evoking unpleasant recollections that such a phrase was the invention…

— Richard A. Falk

The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the…

— Kenneth S. Deffeyes

In the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed that his great-power rivals would be easy to exploit and isolate because each had little interest…

— John Mearsheimer

My parents were born in the 1930s, and they experienced the air raids on Tokyo.

— Hideo Kojima

I loved 1930's women's pictures'films by Josef Von Sternberg or William Wyler. So, I fashioned a style out of that. The integrity…

— Kola Boof

Those who controlled private capital largely walked away from the US economy for the entire 1930s, refusing to pump in enough new…

— Robert P. Murphy

'Celluloid' is set in the 1930s. During the decade, the folk-classical genre seems to have been in vogue. It didn't take much…

— M. Jayachandran

“In addition, of course, they would be taken to a bath and in the bath vestibule they would be ordered to leave…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later…

— George Stigler

The Holocaust would never have happened if black people lived in Germany in the 1930s and 40s … well, it wouldn't have…

— Sarah

The point about Roosevelt's New Deal was that it was visionary - for the 1930s.

— Caroline Lucas

I've got a soft spot for Theatr Colwyn because my granddad used to run the Colwyn amateur dramatic society in the 1930s.

— Terry Jones