Top 25 Mccarthy Era Quotes
#1. There are significant analogues between the American fear of Communism during the McCarthy era and the American fear of Islam at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Ben Daniel
#2. It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.
Warren Farrell
#3. The witch-hunting McCarthy era found Hollywood's view of the press growing bleaker along with the decade's view of everything else.
Steve Erickson
#4. Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was beneath contempt. They didn't bother censoring it.
William Gibson
#5. There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.
Ken Follett
#6. Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.
Studs Terkel
#7. When I made Spartacus during the McCarthy Era, we were losing our freedom. It was an awful, awful way. McCarthy saw Communists everywhere, in every level of government and they concentrated on Hollywood and especially on Hollywood writers.
Kirk Douglas
#8. The first period of excitement, which began with the Dartmouth meeting, was later described by John McCarthy (the event's main organizer) as the "Look, Ma, no hands!" era.
Nick Bostrom
#9. Spiritual nature is inconceivable and unlimited. Therefore, the activities of that realm will always remain beyond our mental speculation and intellectual concept.
Bhakti Charu Swami
#10. As a race car driver, driving is the easy part. The hard part is containing the emotions on the race track.
Kevin Harvick
#13. leader is great, not because of his or her power, but because of his or her ability to empower others. Success without a successor is failure. A worker's main responsibility is developing others to do the work (see
John C. Maxwell
#14. Ernst was still in the Eastern Zone, about ninety kilometres from Berlin, when the truck emerged so inexplicably out of nowhere that it seemed to have been created by the rain itself.
Mordecai Richler
#15. They're trying to make fuel cells a reality. They want to bring the hydrogen economy to the United States.
Thomas Davis
#16. My wife, my daughters, even my grandchildren are funny. You've got to keep a sense of humor because anger destroys you.
Michael Caine
#17. Greater than a sage is the one who taught him; God is the teacher, and the wise are all His students.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#18. It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
George Bernard Shaw
#19. Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
Al Goldstein
#20. If I hadn't already flown with him, I'd be scared. I'm above the water with nothing but his arms between me and an icy plunge. But his arms are wrapped tightly around me and his chest is warm. I lean my head against his muscular shoulder and close my eyes.
He rubs his cheek against my hair
Susan Ee
#21. We are full of rhythms ... our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.
Yehudi Menuhin
#22. World is full of followers and leaders, and I think that if one can become both and be both, to follow in order to lead, and to lead in order to follow, then I think you're on the right path.
George Ogilvie
#23. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, they make bad movie after bad movie.
Peter Stormare
#24. What is there but untruth and heartbreak wherever you go?
Dorothy Dunnett
