The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the… — Gustave Le Bon Copy Share Image
Thinking about the new epoch - often called the Anthropocene, or the age of humanity - challenges us to look at ourselves… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power… — James Madison Copy Share Image
As the journalists of the time phased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the Air. The new atomic aeroplane… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The broad mass of a nation will more easily fall victim to a big lie than a small one. The greater the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I personally know of scores of cases (of alcohoics) who were of the type with whom other methods had failed completely…because of… — William Duncan Silkworth Copy Share Image
The immediate success of the war poem anthologies ... proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth… — John Adams Copy Share Image
As scientists have discovered - or perhaps explained is a better word, or perhaps identified - we now live in the age… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Every style seems completely appropriate to its epoch. We cannot imagine Madame de Pompadour, or the Empress Josephine, or the early Victorian… — James Laver Copy Share Image
We should be most careful about retreating from the specific challenge of our age. We should be reluctant to turn our back… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
The discovery which has been pointed to by theory is always one of profound interest and importance, but it is usually the… — Oliver Lodge Copy Share Image
In our civilization, there are permanent forms which are part of every epoch and every culture. They are not especially difficult to… — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Today we are on the brink of another extraordinary revolution. The Information Age is already over and an exciting new epoch is… — Patricia Aburdene Copy Share Image
The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
Evolution is a process of creating patterns of increasing order…I believe that it's the evolution of patterns that constitutes the ultimate story… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
The birth of Christ our Lord was more than an incident, it was an epoch in the history of the world... He… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
