Government action is not the whole answer to the present crisis, but it is an important partial answer. Morals cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. The law cannot make an employer love me, but it can keep him from refusing to hire me because of the color of my skin.Martin Luther King, Jr.1958★ 6.2
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.Gaston BachelardThe Poetics of Space · 1958★ 5.9
SpeechIt is useful to distinguish among four factors which give importance, urgency, and inevitability to the advancement of space technology. The first of these factors is the compelling urge of man to explore and to discover, the thrust of curiosity that leads men to try to go where no one has gone before.James R. Killian1958★ 5.0
Sociology · Economic literatureIt will be convenient to have a name for the ideas which are esteemed at any time for their acceptability, and it should be a term that emphasizes this predictability. I shall refer to these ideas henceforth as the conventional wisdom.John Kenneth GalbraithThe Affluent Society · 1958★ 4.4
Film · Film noir · Crime drama (film) · Crime dramaA policeman's job is only easy in a police state. That's the whole point, Captain. Who's the boss, the cop or the law?Mike VargasTouch of Evil · 1958★ 3.7
Psychological literatureYou can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.Carl Jung1958★ 3.6
Sociology · Economic literatureWealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.John Kenneth GalbraithThe Affluent Society · 1958★ 3.6
LetterIf it is right, it happens—The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.John Steinbeck1958★ 3.6
The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this-with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need-this life is hell.W.E.B. Du Bois1958★ 3.6
Speech · Philosophical literature · Political literatureLiberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience.Isaiah BerlinTwo Concepts of Liberty · 1958★ 3.6
Film · Film noir · Psychological thriller (film) · Psychological thrillerThe law has little to say on the subject of things left undone.CoronerVertigo · 1958★ 3.6
Film · Film noir · Psychological thriller (film) · Psychological thrillerTo wander separately? But, only one is a wanderer; two together are always going somewhere.Madeleine ElsterVertigo · 1958★ 3.6
Essay · Newspaper · Economic literatureMen enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.C. Northcote ParkinsonThe Economist · 1958★ 3.5
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