1938

Explore 30 quotes from the year 1938

There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.

Frank Buchman

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Topic

Environmental destruction Natural resources Capitalism

Author

Frank Buchman

Source

Moral Re-Armament

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Buchman, Frank. "Moral Re-Armament." 29 May 1938, East Ham Town Hall, London, England, UK.

I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found.

Thomas Wolfe

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Topic

America

Author

Thomas Wolfe

Source

You Can't Go Home Again

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wolfe, Thomas. You Can't Go Home Again. Harper & Row, 1940, ch. 48.

If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Thomas Wolfe

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Topic

Talent

Author

Thomas Wolfe

Source

The Web and the Rock

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wolfe, Thomas. The Web and the Rock. Harper & Sons, 1939, ch. 29.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Mao Zedong

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Topic

Politics War

Speaker

Mao Zedong

Medium

Lecture

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Chinese

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Zedong, Mao. "On Protracted Warfare." Yenan Association for the Study of the War of Resistance Against Japan. 26 May - 3 June 1938, Yenan, China. Lecture series.

There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.

George Orwell

Homage to Catalonia

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Topic

Resistance Defeat War

Author

George Orwell

Source

Homage to Catalonia

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia. Secker and Warburg, 1938, ch. 4.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

George Orwell

Homage to Catalonia

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Topic

Warmongering Politics in war War

Author

George Orwell

Source

Homage to Catalonia

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia. Secker and Warburg, 1938, ch. 5.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Topic

Safeguards of freedom Political theory

Speaker

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Medium

Radio broadcast

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. On the Recession. Fireside chat. 14 Apr. 1938, Diplomatic Reception Room, The White House, Washington, DC, USA.

The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go, doesn't it?

Thornton Wilder

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Topic

Mornings Stars

Author

Thornton Wilder

Source

Our Town

Medium

Play

Genre

Drama (play) Drama

Language

English

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wilder, Thornton. Our Town. 22 Jan. 1938, McCarter Theatre, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, act 1.

Current Citation

Wilder, Thornton. Our Town: A Play in Three Acts. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2020, act 1.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea.

Alain (Emile Chartier)

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Topic

Fanaticism Narrow-mindedness Intolerance Power of ideas

Author

Alain (Emile Chartier)

Source

Propos sur la religion

Language

French

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Chartier, Émile [published as Alain]. Propos sur le Religion no. 74. Editions Rieder, 1938.

How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing.

Neville Chamberlain

On German's annexation of the Sudetenland.

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Topic

World War II

Speaker

Neville Chamberlain

Medium

Radio broadcast

Language

English

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Chamberlain, Neville. Radio broadcast referring to the Czechoslovakia crisis. 27 Sept. 1938, 10 Downing Street, London, England, UK.