Famous quotes containing the words blum, post-war and/or period:
“When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.”
—Léon Blum (1872–1950)
“Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still “globaloney.” Mr. Wallace’s warp of sense and his woof of nonsense is very tricky cloth out of which to cut the pattern of a post-war world.”
—Clare Boothe Luce (1903–1987)
“Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.”
—Thomas Szasz (b. 1920)