“Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty.”
Toni Morrison book The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye (1969) First lines
Fabricated, The Hidden Tyranny interview
“Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty.”
Toni Morrison book The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye (1969) First lines
Jack Kevorkian (1928–2011) American pathologist, euthanasia activist
Quoted in "Years of Minutes" - Page 329 - by Andy Rooney - 2004
2000s, 2004
“All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.”
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Amanda, Scene Six
Source: The Glass Menagerie (1944)
“The idea of a concentration camp is excellent.”
Joseph Stalin (1879–1953) General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
On ideas of eradicating 'counter-revolutionaries and traitors' in Estonia, as quoted in Stalin : A Biography (2004) by Robert Service, p. 158; also in Bol'shevistskoe rukovodstvo. Perepiska, 1912-1927, p. 36.
Contemporary witnesses
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Section VIII: “Monopoly, Or Opportunity?”, p. 185 http://books.google.com/books?id=MW8SAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA185&dq=%22A+great+industrial+nation%22. Note that this remark has been used as the basis for a fake quotation discussed below. <br class="br">1910s, The New Freedom (1913) <br class="br">Context: A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom. This is the greatest question of all, and to this statesmen must address themselves with an earnest determination to serve the long future and the true liberties of men.
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2008, Address to the United Nations General Assembly (September 2008)
Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
Chronicles of Dissent, December 13, 1989 https://web.archive.org/web/20000829081348/http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/interviews/db-8912.html <br class="br">Quotes 1960s–1980s, 1980s