1950

Explore 28 quotes from the year 1950

Sort

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance—these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Isaiah Berlin

Foreign Affairs

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Berlin, Isaiah. "Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century." Foreign Affairs, Vol. 28, No. 3, Apr. 1950.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Aldous Huxley

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Huxley, Aldous. "Variations on a Philosopher." Themes and Variations. Chatto & Windus/Harper & Brothers, 1950.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.

Bertrand Russell

Buy a book containing this essay at Amazon Buy a book containing this essay at Amazon

Read this essay at ditext.com

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Russell, Bertrand. "An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish." Unpopular Essays. George Allen & Unwin, 1950.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Christopher Fry

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 1

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Fry, Christopher. Time Magazine. 3 Apr. 1950.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

Felix Frankfurter

United States v. Rabinowitz

There are no other quotes from this source in the Bon Mots database.

Read this opinion at supreme.justia.com.

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Genre

Statement Type

Language

Time

Authentication Score 2

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Frankfurter, Felix. Dissenting Opinion. United States v. Rabinowitz. United States Reports, vol. 339, 20 Feb. 1950, pp. 68-86. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/339/56/.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, "kiss-kiss" and "bang-bang."

Hortense Powdermaker

There are no other quotes by this person in the Bon Mots database.

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Powdermaker, Hortense. Hollywood, the Dream Factory: An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie-Makers. Little, Brown and Company, 1950, introduction.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

Harold Macmillan

More information about this quote

Topic

Speaker

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 1

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

MacMillan, Harold. Speech in Strasbourg. 16 Aug. 1950, Strasbourg, France.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

The young physician starts life with twenty drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for twenty diseases.

William Osler

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Osler, William. Aphorisms from His Bedside Teachings and Writings. Henry Schuman, 1950.

Citation text copied to clipboard.