1940s · Skopia

Showing 418 quotes from the 1940s

Novel · Dystopian fiction

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.

Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949

★ 9.8

Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Winston Churchill

1947

★ 9.4

Novel · Allegory · Dystopian fiction

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Animal Farm · 1945

★ 9.1

Article · Newspaper

History is written by the winners.

1944

★ 9.1

The buck stops here.

1945

★ 8.9

Speech · Political speech

Yesterday, December 7, 1941-a date which will live in infamy-the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

1941

★ 8.8

Essay · Philosophical literature

I am condemned to be free.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Being and Nothingness · 1943

★ 8.5

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Romantic drama

Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Casablanca · 1942

★ 7.8

Novel · Dystopian fiction

WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949

★ 7.7

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Romantic drama

We'll always have Paris.

Casablanca · 1942

★ 7.7

Novel · Dystopian fiction

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.

Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949

★ 7.4

Personal journal

It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals. They seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

The Diary of a Young Girl · 1944

★ 7.4

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Romantic drama

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

Casablanca · 1942

★ 7.3

Novel · War novel

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls · 1940

★ 7.3

Speech · Political speech

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Winston Churchill

1940

★ 7.1

Hell is other people.

Jean-Paul Sartre

1944

★ 7.1

Speech · Political speech

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Winston Churchill

1946

★ 7.0

Personal journal

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

1941

★ 7.0

If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

1944

★ 7.0

Speech · Political speech

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Winston Churchill

1940

★ 7.0

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