1930s Quotes

87 1930s quotes by 85 unique authors

The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined… — Michael Parenti
The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very… — Jacob Bronowski
To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on… — Richard D. Wolff
I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and… — August Wilson
Then I was president of the Bakelite Corporation from 1910 to 1930 — Leo Baekeland
Keynes, far from being a wholehearted lover of freedom, viewed with some sympathy the fascist and Communist ‘experiments’ of the 1930s. — Ralph Raico
When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage.… — Tom Glazer
The novelist now usurps the chair of the educator, the pulpit of the preacher, the columns of the journalist. Yet his original purpose of entertaining… — Philip Wylie
Economist Frederick Thayer has studied the history of our balanced-budget crusades and has come up with some depressing statistics. We have had six major depressions… — Molly Ivins
I can't resist telling you that when the Vienna Economics Institute celebrated its centennial, many years ago, they invited, as their keynote speaker, my father… — Unknown Author
It reminds me in some ways of the debate taking place in this country and around the world in the late 1930s - there were… — Bernie Sanders
The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish city of Guernica… — Dahr Jamail
The Holocaust would never have happened if black people lived in Germany in the 1930s and 40s … well, it wouldn't have happened to Jews. — Sarah
I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years. — Albert Maltz
The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity. — Julian Barnes
The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible… — Paddy Ashdown
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians. — Milton Friedman
The relation of eugenics to British psychiatry bears examination. The primary controlling body for psychiatry in England is the British National Association for Mental Health… — Jim Keith
When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to… — Irwin Shaw
The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance… — Ron Chernow
Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 "at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel." "Sooner or later… — Winston Churchill
Well, part of it is a longstanding belief - it's been in our education establishment at least since the 1930s - that somehow children should… — Lynne Cheney
People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history… — Gordon Parks
I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time. — Nanette Lepore
Liberals and leftists have been dismissing inconvenient facts by attacking motives for generations. In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, Soviet spies and abettors attacked the… — Jonah Goldberg

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