1955

Explore 37 quotes from the year 1955

My life, my real life, was in danger, and not from anything other people might do but from the hatred I carried in my own heart.

James Baldwin

Notes of a Native Son

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Topic

Effects of racism Black experience

Author

James Baldwin

Source

Notes of a Native Son

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Baldwin, James. "Me and My House." Harper's Magazine, Nov. 1955.

Current Citation

Baldwin, James. "Notes of a Native Son." James Baldwin: Collected Essays, edited by Toni Morrison. Library of America, 1998.

They think that I can make friends if we move. Just move, everything will be roses and sunshine.

Rebel Without a Cause

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Topic

Grass is always greener Change of scenery

Speaker

Jim Stark

Actor

James Dean

Source

Rebel Without a Cause

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Rebel Without a Cause. Directed by Nicholas Ray, Warner Bros. Pictures, 1955.

The distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, however persistent.

Albert Einstein

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Topic

Nature of time Time

Author

Albert Einstein

Source

Letters of Albert Einstein

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Einstein, Albert. Quoted in Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology, by Max Jammer. Princeton University Press, 1999. Originally from Letter to Michaelangelo Besso, 21 Mar. 1955.

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.

Graham Greene

The Quiet American

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Topic

Justifications and rationales

Speaker

Alden Pyle

Author

Graham Greene

Source

The Quiet American

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Greene, Graham. The Quiet American. William Heinemann, 1955, ch. 4, sec. 2.

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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Topic

Self-improvement Personal growth Character

Speaker

Albert Einstein

Source

The Death of a Genius Life Magazine

Medium

Interview Magazine

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Einstein, Albert. "The Death of a Genius." Interviewed by William Miller. Life Magazine, 2 May 1955.

Third parties are like bees. Once they have stung, they die.

Richard Hofstadter

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Topic

Political theory American politics

Author

Richard Hofstadter

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hofstadter, Richard. The Age of Reform: from Bryan to FDR. Alfred A. Knopf, 1955, pt. 3.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Mother and Son

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Topic

Gender relations Men and women

Author

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Source

Mother and Son

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Compton-Burnett, Ivy. Mother and Son. Victor Gollancz/Julian Messner, 1955, ch. 10.

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.

Harry Truman

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Topic

Marshall Plan World War II

Author

Harry Truman

Source

Years of Trial and Hope

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Truman, Harry S. Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: 1946-52, Years of Trial and Hope. Vol. 2, Doubleday & Company, 1955, ch. 8.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Eric Hoffer

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Topic

Seeking happiness Happiness Unhappiness Seeking

Author

Eric Hoffer

Source

The Passionate State of Mind and Other Aphorisms

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hoffer, Eric. The Passionate State of Mind, and Other Aphorisms. Harper & Row, 1955, no. 280.

To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Bernard Baruch

Quoted in Newsweek

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Topic

Old age Perspective Relativism

Speaker

Bernard Baruch

Source

Newsweek

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Baruch, Bernard M. Quoted in Newsweek. 29 Aug. 1955.

There is probably no sensitive heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied at one time or another with his latent homosexuality.

Norman Mailer

The Homosexual Villain

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Topic

Sexuality

Author

Norman Mailer

Source

The Homosexual Villain One Magazine

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Mailer, Norman. "The Homosexual Villain." Advertisements for Myself. Harvard University Press, 1959. Originally published in One Magazine, Jan. 1955.

If anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.

Nikita Khrushchev

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Topic

Soviet Union Marxism Cold War

Speaker

Nikita Khrushchev

Language

Russian

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Khrushchev, Nikita. Quoted in New York Times. 18 Sept. 1955. Originally an impromptu speech at a dinner for visiting West German dignitaries. 17 Sept. 1955, Moscow, Russia.

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

Mistinguett

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Topic

Kisses

Speaker

Mistinguett

Source

Theatre Arts

Medium

Magazine

Language

French

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Mistinguett. Quoted in "Limelights and Footlights." Written by Hedy Clark. Theatre Arts, 1955.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

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Topic

Purpose of art Art

Author

Thomas Merton

Source

No Man Is an Island

Genre

Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Merton, Thomas. No Man Is an Island. Clonmore & Reynolds/Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955.

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Topic

Financial panics and bubbles

Author

John Kenneth Galbraith

Source

The Great Crash, 1929

Genre

Economic literature

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash, 1929. Houghton Mifflin, 1955, ch. 1, sect. 2.

I think continually of those who were truly great... The names of those who in their lives fought for life,
Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.
Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun,
And left the vivid air signed with their honor.

Stephen Spender

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Topic

Greatness

Author

Stephen Spender

Source

The Truly Great

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Spender, Stephen. "I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great." Poems. Faber and Faber, 1933.

By the "Establishment," I do not mean only the centers of official power-though they are certainly part of it-but rather the whole matrix of official and social relations within which power is exercised.

Henry Fairlie

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Topic

The man Elites

Author

Henry Fairlie

Source

The Spectator

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Fairlie, Henry. "How The Spectator invented the Establishment." The Spectator, 23 Sept. 1955.