1930s Quotes

87 1930s quotes by 85 unique authors

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
You're about to meet a new great dame of crime fiction in Death Was the Other Woman. Linda L. Richards does a stunning job in… — Linda Fairstein
My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England… — Desmond Llewelyn
I had a great time making the last movie, 'Eclipse.' We shot my back-story stuff from the 1930's. But I was waiting for 'Breaking Dawn'… — Nikki Reed
Is it possible that the environmental severity of the 1930s induced-particularly in the most aware, alert, and compassionate of [British] men-a morality which makes no… — Robert Ardrey
For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole,… — Barry Eichengreen
Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that… — Barry Eichengreen
I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing… — Megan Abbott
My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s. — Colin Firth
In 1930 I became a member of the Reichstag. — Hans Frank
The crisis of the 1930s and the populist reactions of that time must not be forgotten. — King Albert II

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