1973

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

What did the president know and when did he know it?

Gravity's Rainbow · 1973

★ 6.9

Howard H. Baker, Jr.

1973

★ 6.9

Song · Reggae music

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your right. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

Bob Marley

Get Up, Stand Up · 1973

★ 6.5

Political literature · Historical literature

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago · 1973

★ 6.0

Song · Reggae music

Get up, stand up Stand up for your rights Get up, stand up Don't give up the fight.

Bob Marley

Get Up, Stand Up · 1973

★ 5.5

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

1973

★ 5.3

Essay · Magazine

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Susan Sontag

Freak Show · 1973

★ 5.2

We have a cancer within, close to the Presidency, that is growing.

John Dean

1973

★ 5.2

Short story

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go-if there are no doors or windows-he walks through a wall.

Bernard Malamud

1973

★ 5.1

Film · Crime (film) · Crime

A man's got to know his limitations.

Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan

Magnum Force · 1973

★ 4.6

A myth is a religion in which no-one any longer believes.

James K. Feibleman

Understanding Philosophy · 1973

★ 4.4

I have 14 other grandchildren and if I pay one penny now, I'll have 14 kidnapped grandchildren.

J. Paul Getty

1973

★ 4.4

Novel · Science fiction

Maybe Jesus was right when he said that the meek shall inherit the earth-but they inherit very small plots, about six feet by three.

Robert A. Heinlein

Time Enough for Love · 1973

★ 4.3

Novel · Science fiction

The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.

Robert A. Heinlein

Time Enough for Love · 1973

★ 4.2

Autobiography and memoir

Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.

Duke Ellington

1973

★ 3.8

Personal journal

Get up quickly-just switch on the white light of the will.

Susan Sontag

1973

★ 3.7

TV program · Sitcom · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

This ain't something a man usually tells a woman: I love you, Edith.

Archie Bunker

All in the Family · 1973

★ 3.7

Film · Neo-noir · Drama (film) · Drama

I made up my mind to never again tag around with a hell-bent type, no matter how in love with him I was.

Holly Sargis

Badlands · 1973

★ 3.7

Film · Spy (film) · Action (film) · Spy · Action

Sheer magnetism, darling.

James Bond

Live and Let Die · 1973

★ 3.7

Poem

What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again.

Allen Ginsberg

Graffiti 12th Cubicle Men's Room Syracuse Airport · 1973

★ 3.6

Love is two people mutually feeding each other, not one living on the soul of the other like a ghoul.

Bessie Head

1973

★ 3.6

Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Erica Jong

Fear of Flying · 1973

★ 3.6

Feminist literature

If God is male, then the male is God.

Mary Daly

Beyond God the Father · 1973

★ 3.6

Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.

The Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

Gravity's Rainbow · 1973

★ 3.6

Lecture

George McGovern

1973

★ 3.6

Interview · Magazine

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

Gore Vidal

1973

★ 3.6

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I am not a crook.

In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ! It is he who commands you! It is he who flung you from the gates of Heaven to the depths of Hell!

1973

★ 3.6

Film · Horror (film) · Horror

Father Merrin

The Exorcist · 1973

★ 3.6

Feminist literature

The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took.

Alice Rossi

1973

★ 3.5

Open letter · Letter

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

1973

★ 3.5

Autobiography and memoir

Sex and religion are bordering states. They use the same vocabulary, share like ecstasies, and often serve as a substitute for one another.

Jessamyn West

1973

★ 3.5

Novel · Science fiction

Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

Robert A. Heinlein

Time Enough for Love · 1973

★ 3.5

Essay

Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them-the one, in fact, which is not a mask.

W.H. Auden

1973

★ 3.5

Inflation is the one form of taxation which can be imposed without any legislative action.

Milton Friedman

1973

★ 3.5

Philosophical literature

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass-which is better than trying to fill them.

Emil Cioran

The Trouble With Being Born · 1973

★ 3.5

Philosophical literature

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Eric Hoffer

1973

★ 3.5

Novel · Feminist literature

Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

Erica Jong

Fear of Flying · 1973

★ 3.5

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

Ivan Illich

1973

★ 3.5

It takes no compromising to give people their rights... It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.

Harvey Milk

1973

★ 3.5

Essay · Scientific literature

Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth... Is that it is alive... Aloft, floating free beneath the moist, cleaming membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos... It has the organized, self-contained look of a live creature, full of information, marvelously skilled in handling the sun.

Lewis Thomas

1973

★ 3.4

Feminist literature

Without the means to prevent, and to control the timing of, conception, economic and political rights have limited meaning and women. If women cannot plan their pregnancies, they can plan little else in their lives.

Alice Rossi

The Feminist Papers · 1973

★ 2.6

Essay

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity.

W.H. Auden

1973

★ 2.0

Magazine

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

Florynce Kennedy

1973

★ 2.0

Essay

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

W.H. Auden

1973

★ 1.9

Magazine

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

Woody Allen

1973

★ 1.9

Let us be proud that our system has produced and provided more freedom and more abundance, more widely shared, than any system in the history of the world.

Second Inaugural Address of Richard Nixon · 1973

★ 1.9

Our children have been taught to be ashamed of their country, ashamed of their parents, ashamed of America's record at home and of its role in the world. At every turn, we have been beset by those who find everything wrong with America and little that is right. But I am confident that this will not be the judgment of history on these remarkable times in which we are privileged to live.

Second Inaugural Address of Richard Nixon · 1973

★ 1.9

In our own lives, let each of us ask—not just what will government do for me, but what can I do for myself? In the challenges we face together, let each of us ask—not just how can government help, but how can I help?

Second Inaugural Address of Richard Nixon · 1973

★ 1.9

A person can be expected to act responsibly only if he has responsibility. This is human nature. So let us encourage individuals at home and nations abroad to do more for themselves, to decide more for themselves. Let us locate responsibility in more places. Let us measure what we will do for others by what they will do for themselves.

Second Inaugural Address of Richard Nixon · 1973

★ 1.9

One legislator accused me of having a nineteenth-century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an eighteenth-century attitude. That is when the Founding Fathers made it clear that the safety of law-abiding citizens should be one of the government's primary concerns.

Ronald Reagan

1973

★ 1.9

Film · Horror (film) · Horror

The demon is a liar. He will like to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us.

Father Merrin

The Exorcist · 1973

★ 1.9

Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Anthony Powell

A Dance to the Music of Time · 1973

★ 1.9

There is no such thing as a human nature independent of culture.

Clifford Geertz

1973

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

Huey P. Newton

1973

★ 1.9

All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.

Gravity's Rainbow · 1973

★ 1.9

There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made-at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.