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

Novel

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Mario Puzo

The Godfather (novel) · 1969

★ 3.7

Magnificent desolation.

Buzz Aldrin

1969

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech

North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.

Richard Nixon

1969

★ 3.7

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

B.F. Skinner

1969

★ 3.6

Philosophical literature

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world.

Hannah Arendt

On Violence · 1969

★ 3.6

Newspaper

If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.

Stevie Smith

1969

★ 3.6

Magazine

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

Henry Kissinger

1969

★ 3.6

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

Now, an army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap.

General George S. Patton

Patton · 1969

★ 3.6

Economic literature · Philosophical literature

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

1969

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Spiro Agnew

1969

★ 3.5

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

Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

General George S. Patton

Patton · 1969

★ 3.5

Song · Pop music

I've lived a life that's full, I've travelled each and ev'ry highway And more, much more than this. I did it my way.

Frank Sinatra

My Way · 1969

★ 3.5

Poem · Political literature

This happened near the core Of a world's culture. This Occurred among higher things. This was a philosophical conclusion. Everybody gets what he deserves.

Alan Bold

June 1967 at Buchenwald · 1969

★ 3.4

Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terre... These form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known... This is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.

Vladimir Nabokov

1969

★ 2.7

Film · Road movie · Drama (film) · Drama

I never wanted to be anybody else.

Wyatt

Easy Rider · 1969

★ 2.0

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

I won't have cowards in my army.

General George S. Patton

Patton · 1969

★ 2.0

Philosophical literature

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent.

Hannah Arendt

On Violence · 1969

★ 1.9

Magazine

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Samuel Beckett

1969

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

We find ourselves rich in goods, but ragged in spirit; reaching with magnificent precision for the moon, but falling into raucous discord on earth. We are caught in war, wanting peace. We are torn by division, wanting unity. We see around us empty lives, wanting fulfillment. We see tasks that need doing, waiting for hands to do them.

Richard Nixon

First Inaugural Address of Richard Nixon · 1969

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

No man can be fully free while his neighbor is not. To go forward at all is to go forward together. This means black and white together, as one nation, not two. The laws have caught up with our conscience. What remains is to give life to what is in the law: to ensure at last that as all are born equal in dignity before God, all are born equal in dignity before man.

Richard Nixon

First Inaugural Address of Richard Nixon · 1969

★ 1.9

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