1971

Explore 39 quotes from the year 1971

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Steve Biko

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Topic

Tools of oppression Oppression Raising consciousness Liberation

Speaker

Steve Biko

Medium

Esssay

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Biko, Steve. "White Racisim and Black Consciousness." Jan. 1971, Abe Bailey Institute of Interracial Studies, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa.

Current Citation

Biko, Steve. "Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity." I Write What I Like: Selected Writings, edited by Aelred Stubbs. University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Why this cult of wilderness?... Peace is often mentioned; beauty; spiritual refreshment, whatever that means; re-creation for the soul, whatever that is; escape; novelty, the delight of something different; truth and understanding and wisdom-commendable virtues in any man, anytime; ecology and all that, meaning the salvation of variety, diversity, possibility and potentiality, the preservation of the genetic reservoir, the answers to questions that we have not yet even learned to ask, a connection to the origin of things, an opening into the future, a source of sanity for the present-all true, all wonderful, all more than enough to answer such a dumb dead degrading question as "Why wilderness?" To which, nevertheless, I shall append one further answer anyway: because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

Edward Abbey

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Topic

Wilderness

Author

Edward Abbey

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Abbey, Edward. "How It Was." Slickrock: The Canyon Country of Southeast Utah. Sierra Club Books, 1971.

The weakness of American civilization, and perhaps the chief reason why it creates so much discontent, is that it is so curiously abstract. It is a bloodless extrapolation of a satisfying life... You dine off the advertiser's "sizzling" and not the meat of the steak.

J.B. Priestley

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Topic

Criticism of America America

Author

J.B. Priestley

Source

New Statesman

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Priestley, J. B. New Statesman. 10 Dec. 1971.

No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes.

The Who

Behind Blue Eyes

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Topic

Alienation

Speaker

The Who

Source

Behind Blue Eyes Who's Next

Medium

Song

Genre

Rock music

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Townshend, Peter. "Behind Blue Eyes." Performed by The Who. Who's Next. Track Records/Decca Records, 1971.

Well all I hear all day long at school is how great Marcia is at this or how wonderful Marcia did that, Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!

Jan Brady

The Brady Bunch

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Topic

Siblings

Speaker

Jan Brady

Actor

Eve Plumb

Source

The Brady Bunch

Medium

TV program

Genre

Sitcom Comedy (TV) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

"Her Sister's Shadow." The Brady Bunch, written by Sherwood Schwartz and Al Schwartz and Phil Leslie, directed by Russ Mayberry, season 3, episode 10, Redwood Productions and Paramount Television, 1971.

Something touched me deep inside
The day the music died.

Don McLean

American Pie

On the death of Buddy Holly.

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Topic

Loss

Speaker

Don McLean

Source

American Pie

Medium

Song

Genre

Rock music

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

McLean, Don. "American Pie." American Pie. United Artists Records, 1971.

That's one of my Goddam precious American rights, not to think about politics.

John Updike

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Topic

Indifference to politics

Author

John Updike

Source

Rabbit Redux

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Updike, John. Rabbit Redux. Alfred A. Knopf, 1971, ch. 1.

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.

A Clockwork Orange

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Topic

Color Media Screens

Speaker

Alex

Actor

Malcolm McDowell

Source

A Clockwork Orange

Medium

Film

Genre

Dystopian (film) Crime (film) Dystopian Crime

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

A Clockwork Orange. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Polaris Productions/Hawk Films, 1971.

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.

Hunter S. Thompson

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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Topic

Drugs

Author

Hunter S. Thompson

Source

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Opening lines

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Thompson, Hunter S. "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream." Rolling Stone Magazine, 11 Nov. 1971.

I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?

Dirty Harry

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Topic

Luck

Speaker

Dirty Harry Callahan

Actor

Clint Eastwood

Source

Dirty Harry

Medium

Film

Genre

Neo-noir Thriller (film) Thriller

Statement Type

Threat

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Dirty Harry. Directed by Don Siegel, The Malpaso Company, 1971.

Shakespeare-the nearest thing in incarnation to the eye of God.

Laurence Olivier

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Topic

Shakespeare

Speaker

Laurence Olivier

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Olivier, Laurence. Interviewed by Kenneth Harris. BBC, c. 1966.

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

John Kerry

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Topic

Vietnam War

Speaker

John Kerry

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Kerry, John. Statement to Senate Foreign Relations Committee. United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations meeting. 22 Apr. 1971, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC, USA.

It's a stinking world because there's no law and order anymore! It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old, like you done. Oh, it's no world for an old man any longer. What sort of a world is it at all? Men on the moon, and men spinning around the earth, and there's not no attention paid to earthly law and order no more.

A Clockwork Orange

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Topic

Law and order Moral decline Decline of civilization

Speaker

Tramp

Actor

Paul Farrell

Source

A Clockwork Orange

Medium

Film

Genre

Dystopian (film) Crime (film) Dystopian Crime

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

A Clockwork Orange. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Polaris Productions/Hawk Films, 1971.

If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.

Helen Reddy

I Am Woman

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Topic

Women

Speaker

Helen Reddy

Source

I Am Woman I Don't Know How to Love Him

Medium

Song

Genre

Pop music

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Reddy, Helen and Ray Burton. "I Am Woman." Performed by Helen Reddy. I Don't Know How to Love Him. Capitol Records, 1971.

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

Paul Ralph Ehrlich

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Topic

Tinkering DIY

Speaker

Paul Ralph Ehrlich

Source

Saturday Review

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Ehrlich, Paul Ralph. Quoted in Saturday Review. 5 June 1971.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra just for you.

Philip Larkin

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Topic

Parents and children Trauma Childhood

Author

Philip Larkin

Source

This Be the Verse High Windows

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Larkin, Philip. "This Be the Verse." High Windows. Faber & Faber Limited, 1974. Originally published in New Humanist, Aug. 1971.

I'm using art as a means of changing myself, as a means of breaking out of a category.

Vito Acconci

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Topic

Self-expression Personal growth Art

Speaker

Vito Acconci

Source

Sexuality: Documents of Contemporary Art

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Acconci, Vito. Interviewed by Cindy Nemser. c. 1971.

Current Citation

Acconci, Vito. Sexuality: Documents of Contemporary Art, edited by Amelia Jones. Whitechapel Gallery/The MIT Press, 2014.

Our original guiding stars are struggle and hope.

Pablo Neruda

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Topic

Hope Fighting for justice Justice Progress Politics

Speaker

Pablo Neruda

Source

Toward the Splendid City (Speech)

Medium

Nobel Prize Lecture Speech

Language

Spanish

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Neruda, Pablo. "Towards the Splendid City." Acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature. 13 Dec. 1971, Stockholm, Sweden.

Current Citation

Neruda, Pablo. "Towards the Splendid City." Nobel Lectures in Literature, 1968-1980. World Scientific Publishing Co., 2007.

I was cured, all right!

A Clockwork Orange

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Topic

Rehabilitation

Speaker

Alex

Actor

Malcolm McDowell

Source

A Clockwork Orange

Medium

Film

Genre

Dystopian (film) Crime (film) Dystopian Crime

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

A Clockwork Orange. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Polaris Productions/Hawk Films, 1971.