Awful Quote by Kirk Douglas

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

When I produced Spartacus, the writer was Dalton Trumbo, who spent a year in jail because he would not answer McCarthy's questions about other…

— Kirk Douglas

I've played some good guys as well, in Spartacus, Paths of Glory and my favorite picture, Lonely Are the Brave, so I had a…

— Kirk Douglas

You'll never see Spartacus in a (expletive) chair!

— Kirk Douglas

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

The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I…

— Aldous Huxley

We vainly fancy ourselves above the ugly informing and paranoia of the right-wing McCarthy era, but in the 21st century, the Left has fashioned…

— Lionel Shriver

“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

I needed to choose between the one thing that really filled thoughts-my love for that woman-and losing my freedom

— Anonymous

“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