1951 · Skopia

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Political literature

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

The Rebel · 1951

★ 7.1

Essay · Philosophical literature · Political literature

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

The Rebel · 1951

★ 7.1

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

William Faulkner

Requiem for a Nun · 1951

★ 7.0

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore - And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over - like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

Langston Hughes

Harlem · 1951

★ 6.9

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

1951

★ 6.9

Philosophical literature

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.

Minima Moralia · 1951

★ 6.9

In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.

Douglas MacArthur

1951

★ 6.1

Personal journal

I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.

1951

★ 5.4

Political literature

To abolish the fences of laws between men—as tyranny does—means to take away man's liberties and destroy freedom as a living political reality; for the space between men as it is hedged in by laws, is the living space of freedom.

The Origins of Totalitarianism · 1951

★ 5.3

Philosophical literature

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Martin Heidegger

Building Dwelling Thinking · 1951

★ 5.3

Song · Country music

I can settle down and be doin' just fine Till I hear an old freight rollin' down the line, Then I hurry straight home and pack And if I didn't go, I believe I'd blow my stack I love you baby, but you gotta understand When the Lord made me he made a ramblin' man.

Ramblin' Man · 1951

★ 5.3

The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.

1951

★ 5.2

Essay · Philosophical literature · Political literature

Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.

The Rebel · 1951

★ 4.6

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is 50% illusion.

A Streetcar Named Desire · 1951

★ 3.9

Political literature

The worst have lost their fear and the best have lost their hope.

The Origins of Totalinarianism · 1951

★ 3.8

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

Jean-Paul Sartre

1951

★ 3.7

Scientific literature

For all at last returns to the sea...the beginning and the end.

1951

★ 3.7

To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

Kulturkritik und Gesellschaft · 1951

★ 3.7

Autobiography and memoir

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Vladimir Nabokov

Speak, Memory · 1951

★ 3.7

Personal journal

After each war there is a little less democracy to save.

Brooks Atkinson

1951

★ 3.6

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