Facts of history
What was created in 1948 in order to safeguard the world from future wars?
The U.N. (the United Nations)
"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion!"
Mr Keating (Dead Poets)
"I gave Ruth my shame because I had been unable to handle it."
The Lamb
"Childhood is the writer's bank balance"
Graham Greene
"Ich bin a Berliner!!
J. F. Kennedy
The front guy behind the Bolshevik (Russian) Revolution
Lenin
"The only problem arises when it transpires that you've been handing Polyakov the crown jewels and getting Russian chickenfeed in return"
George Smiley
"It was hard work — a hard life — but now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a wholly undesirable life."
Eveline (J.Joyce)
"I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life”
H.Thoreau
"The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind"
Thomas Paine (from "Common Sense")
What is the "CIA" an acronym for?
Central Intelligence Agency
“Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure”
Squealer
“The angel was a little puzzled…”
The Priest´s Soul (Yeats)
"The child is the father of the man"
W. Wordsworth (Romantic poet)
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Mandela
The internment law
“It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?”
Lacon
"To the Virgins to make much of time" (a poem, much quoted and discussed in Dead Poet´s Society)
Robert Herrick
"Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere."
George Orwell
"While I live, let me have a country... A FREE country!"
John Adams
At least 3 of the names of the infamous Cold-war spy circle "Cambridge 5"
Philby, Burgess, Blunt, Maclean and Cairncross.
“In capitalist America economic repression of the masses is institutionalised to a point which not even Lenin could have foreseen”
Bill Haydon (the mole!)
"The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world..."
The Second Coming (Yeats)
"I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul. The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me..."
Walt Whitman (from "Song of Myself", 1855)
"I am really two people. I am a private person and a political person. Of course, if there is a conflict, the political person comes first."
Kim Philby