1949 · Skopia

Showing 52 quotes from 1949

Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949

★ 9.8

Novel · Dystopian fiction

WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949

★ 7.7

Novel · Dystopian fiction

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

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949

★ 7.4

Letter

Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.

Groucho Marx

1949

★ 6.9

Historical literature · Feminist literature

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons hitherto brought forward in explanation of this fact has seemed adequate.

Simone de Beauvoir

The Second Sex · 1949

★ 5.5

Song · Country music

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill? He sounds too blue to fly. The midnight train is whinin' low, I'm so lonesome I could cry.

Hank Williams

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry · 1949

★ 5.4

Play

What is hell? Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

T.S. Eliot

1949

★ 5.2

Economical literature · Political literature

Laissez faire does not mean: Let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: Let each individual choose how he wants to cooperate in the social division of labor; let the consumers determine what the entrepreneurs should produce. Planning means: Let the government alone choose and enforce its rulings by the apparatus of coercion and compulsion.

Ludwig von Mises

Human Action: A Treatise on Economics · 1949

★ 5.1

Song · Musical · Great American songbook

You've got to be taught Before it's too late Before you are six, or seven, or eight To hate all the people your relatives hate You've got to be carefully taught.

Rodgers and Hammerstein

1949

★ 5.1

Historical literature · Feminist literature

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

Simone de Beauvoir

The Second Sex · 1949

★ 4.5

Essay · Nature writing

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Aldo Leopold

A Sand County Almanac · 1949

★ 4.4

Film · Film noir · Drama (film) · Drama

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Harry Lime

The Third Man · 1949

★ 4.4

Autobiography and memoir

Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage.

Albert Schweitzer

1949

★ 4.2

Novel · Dystopian fiction

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949

★ 4.0

Historical literature · Feminist literature

To tell the truth, one is not born a genius: one becomes a genius.

Simone de Beauvoir

The Second Sex · 1949

★ 4.0

Novel · Dystopian fiction

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness, and that, for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949

★ 3.9

Novel · Dystopian fiction

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949

★ 3.9

Novel · Dystopian fiction

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949

★ 3.9

Novel · Dystopian fiction

The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949

★ 3.9

Personal journal

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

George Orwell

1949

★ 3.8

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