1932 · Skopia

Showing 29 quotes from 1932

1932

★ 8.8

Letter

The very touch of the letter was as if you had taken me all into your arms.

Anais Nin

1932

★ 6.9

Birth, and copulation, and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

T.S. Eliot

1932

★ 6.9

War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to face it.

Benito Mussolini

1932

★ 6.1

Personal journal

Once we have power, we shall never again give it up, unless we are carried out as corpses from our offices.

Paul Joseph Goebbels

1932

★ 5.2

Religious literature

This universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.

John H. Holmes

The Sensible Man's View of Religion · 1932

★ 4.3

Novel

Poor man. Poor mankind.

William Faulkner

Light in August · 1932

★ 3.8

Speech · Political speech

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

1932

★ 3.8

Essay · Magazine

The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

Bertrand Russell

1932

★ 3.6

Poem

We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying.

D.H. Lawrence

Last Poems · 1932

★ 3.6

Speech · Political speech

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

1932

★ 3.6

Essay · Political literature

Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.

Leon Trotsky

1932

★ 3.5

Song · Play · Musical (play) · Musical

Once I built a railroad, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?

Yip Harburg

1932

★ 3.5

Political literature · Philosophical literature

All genuine political theories presuppose man to be evil, i. E., by no means an unproblematic but a dangerous and dynamic being.

Carl Schmitt

The Concept of the Political · 1932

★ 3.5

Philosophical literature

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Ernest Dimnet

1932

★ 3.5

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

The Court bows to the lessons of experience and the force of better reasoning, recognizing that the process of trial and error, so fruitful in the physical sciences, is appropriate also in the judicial function.

Louis Brandeis

Burnet v. Coronado Oil and Gas Co. · 1932

★ 3.5

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Dissenting opinion · Legal writing

It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.

Louis Brandeis

New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann · 1932

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory...was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward, just as yeast rises up, through the ranks.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

1932

★ 2.8

Novel

Whether you are dealing with an animal or a child, to convince is to weaken.

Colette

1932

★ 2.7

Life Begins at Forty.

Walter B. Pitkin

1932

★ 2.7

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Ernest Hemingway

Death in the Afternoon · 1932

★ 2.0

Autobiography and memoir

There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas Edison

1932

★ 2.0

Interview · Magazine

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas Edison

1932

★ 2.0

Novel

Too much happens... Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything... That's what is so terrible.

William Faulkner

Light in August · 1932

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

These unhappy times call for the building of plans that... Build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

1932

★ 1.9

Essay · Magazine

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.

Bertrand Russell

1932

★ 1.9

Poem

I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall I'll never see a tree at all.

Ogden Nash

1932

★ 1.9

Novel

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

Colette

1932

★ 1.0

Autobiography and memoir

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Frank Lloyd Wright

1932

★ 1.0