1956

Explore 43 quotes from the year 1956

It's no good trying to fool yourself about love. You can't fall into it like a soft job, without dirtying up your hands. It takes muscle and guts. And if you can't bear the thought of messing up your nice, clean soul, you'd better give up the whole idea of life and become a saint.

John Osborne

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Topic

Challenges of love Nature of love Love

Speaker

Jimmy Porter

Author

John Osborne

Source

Look Back in Anger

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Osborne, John. Look Back in Anger. 1956, Royal Court Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3.

Current Citation

Osborne, John. Look Back in Anger. Faber & Faber, 2015, act 3.

I don't believe in surrenders. Nope, I still got my saber, Reverend. Didn't turn it into no plowshare neither.

The Searchers

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Topic

Surrender

Speaker

Ethan Edwards

Actor

John Wayne

Source

The Searchers

Medium

Film

Genre

Western (film) Western

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Searchers. Directed by John Ford, C.V. Whitney Pictures, 1956.

By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.

C. Wright Mills

The Power Elite

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Topic

American elite Elites

Author

C. Wright Mills

Source

The Power Elite

Genre

Sociology

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Mills, C. Wright. The Power Elite. Oxford University Press, 1956, ch. 1.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others.

Pablo Picasso

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Topic

Success Self-indulgence Originality

Speaker

Pablo Picasso

Source

Vogue

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

French

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Picasso, Pablo. "Picasso." Interviewed by Alexander Liberman. Vogue, 1 Nov. 1956.

You are the un-Americans and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves.

Paul Robeson

Testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, June 12th, 1956.

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Topic

Red Scare

Speaker

Paul Robeson

Medium

Congressional hearing

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Robeson, Paul. Testimony before House Un-American Activities Committee. Un-American Activities Committee meeting. 12 June 1956, Washington, DC, USA.

The illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

Clement Attlee

On Russian communism.

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Topic

Russian communism Communism

Speaker

Clement Attlee

Source

The Times of London

Medium

Speech Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Attlee, Clement. Speech at Aarhus University. 11 Apr. 1956, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.

Women are really much nicer than men:
No wonder we like them.

Kingsley Amis

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Topic

Men and women

Author

Kingsley Amis

Source

A Bookshop Idyll

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Amis, Kingsley. "A Bookshop Idyll." A Case of Samples: Poems 1946–1956. Gollancz, 1956.

I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.

William Faulkner

Quoted in Paris Review

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Topic

Home Writing

Speaker

William Faulkner

Source

Art of Fiction interview Paris Review

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Faulkner, William. "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12." Interviewed by Jean Stein. Paris Review, Spring 1956.

The novel is an art form and when you use it for anything other than art, you pervert it... If you do manage to use it successfully for social, religious, or other purposes, it is because you make it art first.

Flannery O'Connor

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Topic

Novels

Author

Flannery O'Connor

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

O'Connor, Flannery. Letter to Father John McCown. 9 May 1956.

What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca what were you doing down by the watermelons?

Allen Ginsberg

A Supermarket in California

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Topic

Consumerism American life

Author

Allen Ginsberg

Source

A Supermarket in California

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Irony

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Ginsberg, Allen. "A Supermarket in California." Howl and Other Poems. City Lights Books, 1956.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Peter De Vries

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Topic

Gluttony Food Coping mechanisms

Speaker

Mrs. Thicknesse

Author

Peter De Vries

Source

Comfort Me With Apples

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

De Vries, Peter. Comfort Me with Apples. Little, Brown & Company, 1956.

We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all costs, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

Albert Camus

The Fall

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Topic

Ego Self-centeredness

Author

Albert Camus

Source

The Fall

Medium

Novel

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

French

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Camus, Albert. La Chute [The Fall]. Editions Gallimard, 1956.

You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war... The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

John Foster Dulles

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Topic

Brinkmanship Taking risks War

Speaker

John Foster Dulles

Source

Life Magazine

Medium

Interview

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Dulles, John Foster. "How Dulles Averted War: Three Times, New Disclosures Show, He Brought U.S. Back from the Brink." Interviewed by James Shepley. Life Magazine, 16 Jan. 1956. 

Long experience has taught me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.

Anthony Eden

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Topic

Criticism from others Criticism

Speaker

Anthony Eden

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Eden, Anthony. Speech at Lord Mayor's guildhall banquet. Lord Mayor's Guildhall Banquet. c. 1956, London, England, UK.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him Vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him Sportsman.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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Topic

Hunting

Author

Joseph Wood Krutch

Genre

Nature writing Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Krutch, Joseph Wood. "Reverence for Life: The Vandal and the Sportsman." The Great Chain of Life. Houghton Mifflin, 1956.

I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age-unless you're an American, of course.

John Osborne

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Topic

America and the world

Speaker

Jimmy Porter

Author

John Osborne

Source

Look Back in Anger

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Osborne, John. Look Back in Anger. 1956, Royal Court Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1.

Current Citation

Osborne, John. Look Back in Anger. Faber & Faber, 2015, act 1.

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

Walter Hagen

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Topic

Letting go Living in the moment

Author

Walter Hagen

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Hagen, Walter C. The Walter Hagen Story. Simon and Schuster, 1956.

My father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I'm going to stay right here and have a part of it, just like you. And no Fascist-minded people like you will drive me from it. Is that clear?

Paul Robeson

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Topic

Black experience

Author

Paul Robeson

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Robeson, Paul. Testimony before House Un-American Activities Committee. Un-American Activities Committee meeting. 12 June 1956, Washington, DC, USA.

I have had a good many more uplifting thoughts, creative and expansive visions-while soaking in comfortable baths or drying myself after bracing showers-in well-equipped American bathrooms than I have ever had in any cathedral.

Edmund Wilson

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Topic

Creative process Creativity

Author

Edmund Wilson

Source

A Piece of My Mind

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wilson, Edmund. A Piece of My Mind: Reflections at Sixty. Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956, ch. 4.

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest... The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Alfred Adler

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Topic

Inferiority complex Human psychology Human nature

Author

Alfred Adler

Source

The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Adler, Alfred. The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler, edited by H. L. Ansbacher and R. R. Ansbacher. Harper Torchbooks, 1964.