1930s Quotes - Page 4

• Kit Kittredge was an amazing experience because I got to go to Canada, and it was my first era film, so I got to wear the 1930s clothes, the real vintage clothes.

  Madison Davenport

  Real, Clothes, Vintage

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• The alternatives [to the stimulus packages] were to do nothing or, worse, effectively replicate the Premiers' Plan of 1931 when governments cut expenditure, thereby compounding the problems created by a private sector already in retreat. The result, of course, was an economic rout, appalling unemployment and a decade of negligible growth through the 1930s

  Kevin Rudd

  Cutting, Government, Growth

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• Russel Wright was the most responsible for the shift in taste toward modern in the late 1930s.

  George Nelson

  Taste, Modern, Responsible

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• I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.

  Kenzo Tange

  Design, Magazines, Saws

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• Every generation faces a challenge. In the 1930s, it was the creation of Social Security. In the 1960s, it was putting a man on the moon. In the 1980s, it was ending the Cold War. Our generation's challenge will be addressing global climate change while sustaining a growing global economy

  Eileen Claussen

  War, Moon, Men

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• Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day, akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s. It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society - and that's the young and the poor.

  David Robertson

  Teenage, Gambling, Evil

  "Study: Internet gambling stakes are high". www.cnn.com. March 17, 2002.

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• Back in the 1930s, Carl Jung, the eminent thinker and psychologist, put it this way: Criticism has 'the power to do good when there is something that must be destroyed, dissolved or reduced, but [it is] capable only of harm when there is something to be built.

  Donald O. Clifton

  Criticism, Way, Psychologist

  Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton (2001). “Now, Discover Your Strengths”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• Temperature measurements in the arctic suggest that it was just as warm there in the 1930's...before most greenhouse gas emissions. Don't you ever wonder whether sea ice concentrations back then were low, too?

  Roy Spencer

  Ice, Sea, Measurement

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• Hate is a disease, and in 1930 I became sick with hatred.

  James Cameron

  Hate, Sick, Hatred

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• The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened rather then undermined democratic forces.

  Michael Parenti

  Struggle, Rights, Political

  "Democracy for the Few". Book by Michael Parenti, 1974.

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• Keynes, far from being a wholehearted lover of freedom, viewed with some sympathy the fascist and Communist ‘experiments’ of the 1930s.

  Ralph Raico

  Lovers, Communist, Keynes

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• I went through the communist children's movement at the age of nine, in 1930, and into the Young Communist League in 1936. The Spanish civil war brought me back. I'd already broken with the communists - or the Stalinists, more precisely - in 1935. But the civil war in Spain and the desire to aid the remarkable people struggling against Fascism brought me back to the Young Communist League, so that I could effectively participate, however far removed from Spain, in their struggle. By 1938 I was ready to be expelled. By 1939 I was expelled.

  Murray Bookchin

  Children, War, Struggle

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• It's radical Islamic terrorism. And yet, when you see the last eight years, something's gone wrong to call it violent extremism or man-caused disasters. It would be as if we were looking at [Adolf] Hitler in the 1930s. And we were afraid to say that he was a Nazi.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Islamic, Men, Eight

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought.

  James Bovard

  Political, Vote, Politician

  James Bovard (2015). “Attention Deficit Democracy”, p.182, Macmillan

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• When I was growing up in the 1930s and '40s anti-Semitism was rampant. It wasn't like Nazi Germany but it was pretty serious - it was part of life.

  Noam Chomsky

  Growing Up, Germany, Serious

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• The authorities in the United States confiscated private gold holdings in the Depression of the 1930's. They may seek to do so again in the Depression of the 1990's.

  James Dale Davidson

  Gold, United States, May

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• I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic genius.

  William Gurstelle

  Book, Genius, Comic

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• Let's stop for a second and remember where we were eight years ago [in 2008]. We had the worst financial crisis, the Great Recession, the worst since the 1930s. That was in large part because of tax policies that slashed taxes on the wealthy, failed to invest in the middle class, took their eyes off of Wall Street, and created a perfect storm.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wall, Eye, Eight

  Source: time.com

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• Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.

  Barry Eichengreen

  Government, Two, Effort

  "US unemployment: some lessons in sharing from the Great Depression" by Barry Eichengreen, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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• I think we're in a very distinctively different historical moment. I mean, I think that you had two things that were operating in the 1930s that seem to be, in many ways, to have been weakened or disappeared. And of course the beginning of the 21st century, I mean, you have - at one level you had massive social movements.

  Henry Giroux

  Mean, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I mean, the 1930s are the birth moment of modern public sector, government-driven infrastructure spending.

  Judy Woodruff

  Mean, Government, Birth

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Lamplighters are the guys who manually turned on all the street lamps in London and turned them off. That was the gig in the 1930s in London.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Guy, Lamps, Gigs

  Source: deadline.com

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• It was reported in the left-wing press in the late 1930s that the Texas Company (Texaco), headed by the Nazi sympathizer Torkild Rieber, diverted its oil shipments from the Republic, with which it had contracts, to [Francisco] Franco.

  Noam Chomsky

  Texas, Wings, Oil

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• The key is Jerusalem. If it is divided even a portion given to Palestinians - we will witness God's wrath outpoured in a measure unknown to mankind. If the US sponsors or demands such a move, America will be in a financial depression worse than the 1930's.

  David Wilkerson

  Moving, America, Keys

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• Stalin was experimenting with telepathy in the 1930's. Winston Churchill had a paranormal office, trying to get people to travel out of their bodies and see behind enemy lines in the Second World War. And the Pentagon... The X-Files is based on a real department in the Pentagon, that's still there now. Pretty much every government, probably as far back in time as we can go, has one. And the police will quite often - and when I say often, I mean often - they will go to mediums if all else fails in the enquiry.

  Peter James

  Real, War, Mean

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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