1917 · Skopia

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Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis · 1917

★ 6.3

Speech · Political speech

The world must be made safe for democracy.

Woodrow Wilson

1917

★ 5.4

Psychological literature

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success with it.

Sigmund Freud

1917

★ 5.3

Novel

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

Stella Benson

This is the End · 1917

★ 3.6

Speech · Political speech

We realize that the greatest things that remain to be done must be done with the whole world for stage and in cooperation with the wide and universal forces of mankind, and we are making our spirits ready for those things.

Woodrow Wilson

Second Inaugural Address of Woodrow Wilson · 1917

★ 3.6

Poem

Beauty for some provides escape, Who gain a happiness in eyeing The gorgeous buttocks of the ape Or autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Aldous Huxley

1917

★ 3.5

Poem

Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That's where the West begins.

Arthur Chapman

Out Where the West Begins · 1917

★ 3.5

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

G.K. Chesterton

1917

★ 3.5

Play

When a man wanted to make a machine that would walk, he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

Guillaume Apollinaire

1917

★ 3.5

Poem

I have come to the borders of sleep, The unfathomable deep Forest where all must lose Their way.

Edward Thomas

1917

★ 3.5

I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect Union, one and inseparable, established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.

William Tyler Page

1917

★ 3.4

I think all men recognize that in time of war the citizen must surrender some rights for the common good which he is entitled to enjoy in time of peace. But, sir, the right to control their own government according to constitutional forms is not one of the rights that the citizens of this country are called upon to surrender in time of war.

Robert M. La Follette

1917

★ 3.4

Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely. It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless... If there is not sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another, possibly more effective pretext after war is on.

Robert M. La Follette

1917

★ 2.5

Political literature

Imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

Vladimir Lenin

Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism · 1917

★ 2.0

Political literature

So long as the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.

Vladimir Lenin

State and Revolution · 1917

★ 2.0

The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.

Marcel Duchamp

1917

★ 1.9

Interview · Newspaper

For most of my life I refused to work at any problem unless its solution seemed to be capable of being put to commercial use.

Thomas Edison

1917

★ 1.9

Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.

Woodrow Wilson

1917

★ 1.9

Novel

The business world contains plenty of successful men who have no brains.

Abraham Cahan

The Rise of David Levinsky · 1917

★ 1.9

Poem

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

Edward Thomas

1917

★ 1.9

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