1966 · Skopia

Showing 38 quotes from 1966

Well, the people have spoken-the bastards.

Dick Tuck

1966

★ 6.8

Poem

The pebble is a perfect creature equal to itself mindful of its limits filled exactly with a pebbly meaning

Zbigniew Herbert

Pebble · 1966

★ 6.0

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

Give us this day our television, and an automobile, but deliver us from freedom.

Madeleine Zimmer

Masculin Feminin · 1966

★ 6.0

Pop music

Set me free, why don'tcha, baby Get out my life, why don'tcha, baby 'Cause you don't really love me You just keep me hangin' on.

The Supremes

You Keep Me Hangin' On · 1966

★ 5.5

Scientific literature · Psychological literature

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail.

Abraham Maslow

The Psychology of Science · 1966

★ 5.2

Scientific literature · Psychological literature

Growth was seen as an endless series of daily choices and decisions in each of which one can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

Abraham Maslow

The Psychology of Science · 1966

★ 5.1

The attitude above all others which I feel sure is no longer valid is the arrogance of power, the tendency of great nations to equate power with virtue and major responsibilities with a universal mission.

J. William Fulbright

The Arrogance of Power · 1966

★ 5.1

Film · Western (film) · Western

Every gun makes its own tune.

Blondie

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly · 1966

★ 4.0

Film · Western (film) · Western

You see in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend—those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.

Blondie

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly · 1966

★ 3.9

Song

All the lonely people, Where do they all come from? All the lonely people, Where do they all belong?

The Beatles

Eleanor Rigby · 1966

★ 3.8

Play

Life is a gamble at terrible odds-if it was a bet, you wouldn't take it.

Tom Stoppard

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead · 1966

★ 3.7

Song · Folk rock

She talks just like a woman, yes, she does She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does And she aches just like a woman But she breaks just like a little girl.

Bob Dylan

Just Like a Woman · 1966

★ 3.7

Film · Biography (film) · Drama (film) · Biography · Drama

God more regards the thoughts of the heart than the words of the mouth.

Margaret More

A Man for All Seasons (film) · 1966

★ 3.7

Film · Biography (film) · Drama (film) · Biography · Drama

Death comes for us all, my lords. Yes, even for kings he comes.

Sir Thomas More

A Man for All Seasons (film) · 1966

★ 3.6

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him, and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.

Earl Warren

Miranda v. Arizona · 1966

★ 3.5

Play

We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered.

Tom Stoppard

1966

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert F. Kennedy

1966

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Robert F. Kennedy

1966

★ 3.5

Political literature

To have power means not to have to give in, and to force the environment or the other person to do so. Power in this narrow sense is the priority of output over intake, the ability to talk instead of listen. In a sense, it is the ability to afford not to learn.

Karl Deutsch

1966

★ 3.5

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfilment.

Malcolm Muggeridge

1966

★ 3.5

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