1950 · Skopia

Showing 27 quotes from 1950

Alright, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.

Sunset Boulevard · 1950

★ 7.0

I have here in my hand a list of 205... A list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.

Joseph McCarthy

1950

★ 6.9

Scientific literature

I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?"

Alan Turing

Computing Machinery and Intelligence · 1950

★ 6.1

Speech · Political speech

There are no warlike peoples-just warlike leaders.

Ralph J. Bunche

1950

★ 5.3

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

As it happens, there are particular aspects of my life to which I would like to maintain sole and exclusive rights and privileges.

Margo

All About Eve · 1950

★ 3.8

Remark · Autobiography and memoir

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.

Ernest Hemingway

1950

★ 3.7

Historical literature

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Winston Churchill

The Second World War · 1950

★ 3.7

Film · Film noir · Drama (film) · Drama

Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.

Joe Gillis

Sunset Boulevard · 1950

★ 3.7

Essay · Philosophical literature

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Bertrand Russell

1950

★ 3.6

Essay · Philosophical literature

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.

Bertrand Russell

1950

★ 3.6

Novel · Science fiction

There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.

Ray Bradbury

1950

★ 3.5

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.

Robert H. Jackson

American Communications Assn. v. Douds · 1950

★ 3.5

Magazine

It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair.

Cyril Connolly

1950

★ 3.4

Nobel Prize Lecture · Speech

I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

William Faulkner

1950

★ 2.7

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

Jelly Roll Morton

1950

★ 2.0

Newspaper

If A is a success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X; Y is play; and Z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

1950

★ 2.0

Film · Film noir · Drama (film) · Drama

The stars are ageless, aren't they?

Norma Desmond

Sunset Boulevard · 1950

★ 2.0

Treatise · Economic literature

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

Joseph Schumpeter

1950

★ 1.9

Essay

When in doubt have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand.

Raymond Chandler

1950

★ 1.9

Essay

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Aldous Huxley

1950

★ 1.9

Essay · Philosophical literature

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.

Bertrand Russell

1950

★ 1.9

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

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

Felix Frankfurter

United States v. Rabinowitz · 1950

★ 1.9

South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, "kiss-kiss" and "bang-bang."

Hortense Powdermaker

1950

★ 1.9

Essay · Magazine · Philosophical literature · Political literature

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance—these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Isaiah Berlin

Foreign Affairs · 1950

★ 1.9

Magazine

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Christopher Fry

1950

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

Harold Macmillan

1950

★ 1.8

The young physician starts life with twenty drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for twenty diseases.

William Osler

1950

★ 0.9