1969 · Skopia

Showing 61 quotes from 1969

That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.

Neil Armstrong

1969

★ 9.5

Song · Pop music

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

John Lennon

Give Peace a Chance · 1969

★ 7.6

Novel

Human contact seemed to her so frail a thing that the hope that two people might want each other in the same way, at the same time and with the possibility of doing something about it, seemed infinitely remote.

Margaret Drabble

The Waterfall · 1969

★ 6.0

Song · Rock music

You can't always get what you want But if you try sometimes You just might find You get what you need.

The Rolling Stones

You Can't Always Get What You Want · 1969

★ 5.5

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a State has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

Thurgood Marshall

Stanley v. Georgia · 1969

★ 5.3

Film · Biography (film) · War (film) · Biography · War

Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

George S. Patton

Patton · 1969

★ 5.3

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Buckminster Fuller

1969

★ 5.2

The technocratic imperative: "What can be done must be done."

Theodore Roszak

The Making of the Counter Culture · 1969

★ 5.2

Song · Rock music

Some folks are born made to wave the flag, Ooh, that red, white, and blue. And when the band plays "Hail to the Chief," Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord, It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no senator's son, no. It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no fortunate one.

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Fortunate Son · 1969

★ 5.2

We're gonna win the game. I guarantee it.

Joe Namath

1969

★ 5.2

It'll play in Peoria.

John Ehrlichman

1969

★ 5.2

TV show · Comedy (TV)

It's not pining, it's passed on. This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.

Mr Praline

Monty Python's Flying Circus · 1969

★ 5.1

Only the tiniest fraction of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them they are free.

Irving Layton

1969

★ 4.3

Autobiography and memoir

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings · 1969

★ 4.0

Song · Rock music

And in the end The love you take Is equal to the love you make.

The Beatles

The End · 1969

★ 3.9

Film · Road movie · Drama (film) · Drama

They're not scared of you. They're scared of what you represent to 'em.

George Hanson

Easy Rider · 1969

★ 3.9

Film · Road movie · Drama (film) · Drama

Talkin' about it and bein' it, that's two different things.

George Hanson

Easy Rider · 1969

★ 3.9

Film · Road movie · Drama (film) · Drama

You know, this used to be a helluva good country. I can't understand what's gone wrong with it.

George Hanson

Easy Rider · 1969

★ 3.8

Film · Road movie · Drama (film) · Drama

Oh, yeah, they're gonna talk to you, and talk to you, and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em.

George Hanson

Easy Rider · 1969

★ 3.8

Political literature · Philosophical literature

The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.

Hannah Arendt

1969

★ 3.7

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