“There were legions of her kind during the nineteen-thirties, women from the age of thirty and upward, who crowded into their war-bereaved… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
The 1930s - a Golden Age for American humor, mainly because everything else was going so badly. The wisecrack was the basic… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
The Fourteenth Amendment, after the civil war, in principle brought former slaves into the category of persons, theoretically. But if you actually… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The government is a functionary of the corporations - and there's nothing new about that. You can find people in the 1930s… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Recently I stood in the desert, far out side of L. A., and watched the sun set on a circus tent from… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The government is now in a position to do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression of the 1930s -… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
My ideal city is more like the city (New York and Paris come to mind, but it sort of applies to all)… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
The truth is, it's very hard looking back... we look at holocaust now with such knowledge and such a sense of the… — David Heyman Copy Share Image
“[W.D.] Jones later commented that people frequently helped them, 'Not because it was Bonnie and Clyde. People in them days just helped—no… — John Neal Phillips Copy Share Image
During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Stalin was experimenting with telepathy in the 1930's. Winston Churchill had a paranormal office, trying to get people to travel out of… — Peter James Copy Share Image
Back in the 1930s, Carl Jung, the eminent thinker and psychologist, put it this way: Criticism has 'the power to do good… — Donald O. Clifton Copy Share Image
Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s. — George Nelson Copy Share Image
Labor has been severely undermined, but that's happened before. In the 1920s, the labor movement was virtually crushed, in large part by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that… — Lynne Cheney Copy Share Image
When I was a boy in the 1930s, the carbon dioxide level was still below 300 parts per million. This year, it… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish… — Dahr Jamail Copy Share Image
“Above Constance's desk were nude photographs of women in 1930s France, draped in provocative poses. She had put them there for Bob's… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Blacks as a group have voted Democratic since the 1930s. The GOP has not courted them in any real way since the… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
Whether we're talking about the New Deal or the Great Society: they didn't come about because they wanted to buy people off… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image