Film · Epic (film) · Drama (film) · Epic · DramaThus sayeth the Lord God of Israel: "Let my people go!"MosesThe Ten Commandments · 1956★ 7.1
Novel · Philosophical literatureA single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers.Albert CamusThe Fall · 1956★ 6.2
Speech · Political speechIt is both historically and biologically true that there can be no birth and growth without birth and growing pains. Whenever there is the emergence of the new we confront the recalcitrance of the old. So the tensions which we witness in the world today are indicative of the fact that a new world order is being born and an old order is passing away.Martin Luther King, Jr.1956★ 6.2
Song · MusicalI could have danced all night And still have begged for more. I could have spread my wings And done a thousand things I've never done before.Eliza DoolittleI Could Have Danced All Night · 1956★ 6.0
Essay · MagazineThat men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.Aldous Huxley1956★ 5.2
EssayThere is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.Gore Vidal1956★ 5.2
PoemAs I sit looking out of a window of the building I wish I did not have to write the instruction manual on the uses of a new metal. I look down into the street and see people, each walking with an inner peace, And envy them-they are so far away from me! Not one of them has to worry about getting out this manual on schedule.John AshberyThe Instruction Manual · 1956★ 5.0
LectureSince the measuring device has been constructed by the observer... We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.Werner Heisenberg1956★ 5.0
Novel · Philosophical literatureYou know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.Albert CamusThe Fall · 1956★ 4.5
Film · Epic (film) · Adventure comedy (film) · Epic · Adventure comedyDon't be in a hurry. You'll miss the best parts in life.Saloon hostessAround the World in 80 Days · 1956★ 3.8
Novel · Philosophical literatureI'll tell you a big secret mon cher. Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.Albert CamusThe Fall · 1956★ 3.6
Film · Epic (film) · Drama (film) · Epic · DramaThe evil that men should turn their brothers into beasts of burden, to slave and suffer in dumb anguish, to be stripped of spirit, and hope, and faith—only because they are of another race, another creed. If there is a god, he did not mean this to be so.MosesThe Ten Commandments · 1956★ 3.6
PoemWould it not be easier In that case for the government To dissolve the people And elect another?Bertolt Brecht1956★ 3.5
In a century which attempts to tear the heart out of every mystery, fashion guards its secret well, and is the best possible proof that there is still magic abroad.Christian Dior1956★ 3.5
Song · Rock musicWell since my baby left me Well I found a new place to dwell Well it's down at the end of lonely street At Heartbreak Hotel.Elvis PresleyHeartbreak Hotel · 1956★ 3.5
NovelNever play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.Nelson AlgrenA Walk on the Wild Side · 1956★ 3.5
PlayIt's no good trying to fool yourself about love. You can't fall into it like a soft job, without dirtying up your hands. It takes muscle and guts. And if you can't bear the thought of messing up your nice, clean soul, you'd better give up the whole idea of life and become a saint.John Osborne1956★ 3.4
SociologyThis book is about the organization man...The people I am talking about...are not the workers, nor are they the white-collar people in the usual, clerk sense of the word. These people only work for the Organization. The ones I am talking about belong to it as well.William H. WhyteThe Organization Man · 1956★ 3.4
Film · Western (film) · WesternI don't believe in surrenders. Nope, I still got my saber, Reverend. Didn't turn it into no plowshare neither.Ethan EdwardsThe Searchers · 1956★ 2.9
SociologyBy the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.C. Wright MillsThe Power Elite · 1956★ 2.5
Interview · MagazineSuccess is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others.Pablo Picasso1956★ 2.0
Speech · NewspaperThe illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.Clement Attlee1956★ 1.9
Congressional hearingYou are the un-Americans and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves.Paul Robeson1956★ 1.9
Interview · MagazineI discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.William FaulknerParis Review · 1956★ 1.9
Novel · Philosophical literatureWe are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all costs, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.Albert CamusThe Fall · 1956★ 1.9
PoemWhat peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca what were you doing down by the watermelons?Allen GinsbergA Supermarket in California · 1956★ 1.9
LetterThe novel is an art form and when you use it for anything other than art, you pervert it... If you do manage to use it successfully for social, religious, or other purposes, it is because you make it art first.Flannery O'Connor1956★ 1.9
PlayI must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age-unless you're an American, of course.John Osborne1956★ 1.8
Nature writing · Philosophical literatureWhen a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him Vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him Sportsman.Joseph Wood Krutch1956★ 1.8
My father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I'm going to stay right here and have a part of it, just like you. And no Fascist-minded people like you will drive me from it. Is that clear?Paul Robeson1956★ 1.8
Autobiography and memoirYou're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.Walter Hagen1956★ 1.8
SpeechLong experience has taught me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.Anthony Eden1956★ 1.8
InterviewYou have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war... The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.John Foster Dulles1956★ 1.8
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest... The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.Alfred Adler1956★ 1.7
Autobiography and memoirI have had a good many more uplifting thoughts, creative and expansive visions-while soaking in comfortable baths or drying myself after bracing showers-in well-equipped American bathrooms than I have ever had in any cathedral.Edmund Wilson1956★ 1.7
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