1927 · Skopia

Showing 29 quotes from 1927

A revolution is not the same as inviting people to dinner, or writing an essay, or painting a picture... A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

Mao Zedong

1927

★ 7.0

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

You ain't heard nothing yet.

Jakie Rabinowitz

The Jazz Singer · 1927

★ 7.0

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Compania General de Tabacos de Filipinas v. Collector of Internal Revenue · 1927

★ 6.9

Novel · Satire

What is Love?... It is the morning and the evening star.

Sinclair Lewis

1927

★ 5.4

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

Proper Studies · 1927

★ 5.3

Novel

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

Thornton Wilder

The Bridge on San Luis Rey · 1927

★ 3.6

Poem

an optimist is a guy that has never had much experience

Don Marquis

1927

★ 3.5

Poem

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Don Marquis

1927

★ 3.5

Novel

Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.

Hermann Hesse

Steppenwolf · 1927

★ 3.5

Political literature · Philosophical literature

The Great Society created by steam and electricity may be a society, but it is no community.

John Dewey

The Public and its Problems · 1927

★ 3.5

Novel

Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

Thornton Wilder

The Bridge on San Luis Rey · 1927

★ 3.5

Novel

Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but there may never be two that love one another equally well.

Thornton Wilder

The Bridge on San Luis Rey · 1927

★ 3.5

Philosophical literature · Religious literature

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Julian Huxley

1927

★ 3.5

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Louis Brandeis

Whitney v. California · 1927

★ 3.5

Speech

Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.

Learned Hand

1927

★ 3.5

Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose... I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy.

J.B.S. Haldane

1927

★ 3.4

At three years of age, the child's whole emotional life plan has been laid down, his emotional disposition set. At that age, the parents have already determined for him whether he is to grow into a happy person, wholesome and good-natured, whether he is to be a whining, complaining neurotic, an anger-driven, vindictive, over-bearing slave driver, or one whose every move in life is definitely controlled by fear.

John B. Watson

1927

★ 3.4

Poem

I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp, gaunt names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.

Stephen Vincent Benet

American Names · 1927

★ 3.4

Poem

I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse, I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea. You may bury my body in Sussex grass, You may bury my tongue at Champmédy. I shall not be there, I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

Stephen Vincent Benet

American Names · 1927

★ 3.4

Mr. Coolidge's genius for inactivity is developed to a very high point. It is far from being an indolent activity. It is a grim, determined, alert inactivity which keeps Mr. Coolidge occupied constantly. Nobody has ever worked harder at inactivity, with such a force of character, with such unremitting attention to detail, with such conscientious devotion to the task.

Walter Lippmann

1927

★ 3.4

Novel

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

Willa Cather

Death Comes for the Archbishop · 1927

★ 2.1

Novel

He had that nameless charm, with a strong magnetism which can only be called "it."

Elinor Glyn

1927

★ 1.9

Novel

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

Hermann Hesse

Steppenwolf · 1927

★ 1.9

Diplomacy is to do and say The nastiest thing in the nicest way.

Isaac Goldberg

1927

★ 1.9

Novel · Satire

The Maker of a universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.

Sinclair Lewis

Elmer Gantry · 1927

★ 1.9

Novel

The whole purpose of literature... Is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.

Thornton Wilder

The Bridge on San Luis Rey · 1927

★ 1.9

Novel

As for others and the world around him he never ceased in his heroic and earnest endeavor to love them, to be just to them, to do them no harm, for the love of his neighbor was as deeply in him as the hatred of himself, and so his whole life was an example that love of one's neighbor is not possible without love of one's self, and that self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair.

Hermann Hesse

Steppenwolf · 1927

★ 1.8

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties; and that in its government the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbitrary. They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Louis Brandeis

Whitney v. California · 1927

★ 1.8

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty. To courageous, self-reliant men, with confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning applied through the processes of popular government, no danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present, unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is opportunity for full discussion. If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

Louis Brandeis

Whitney v. California · 1927

★ 1.8