As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“this fear of growing to resemble Europe was part of the reason why the United States in 1910–1920 pioneered a very progressive… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
According to the management expert Peter F. Drucker, the term "entrepreneur" (from the French, meaning "one who takes into hand") was introduced… — David Bornstein Copy Share Image
Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Back in the twentieth century, we thought that robots would have taken over by this time, and, in a way, they have.… — Mary Norris Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century developments in science support a new animism. Developments in physics have led to a world of energetic events which seem to… — David Ray Griffin Copy Share Image
“I am the twentieth century. I am the ragtime and the tango; sans-serif, clean geometry. I am the virgin's-hair whip and the… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of… — Peggy Phelan Copy Share Image
Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one… — Daniel D. Polsby Copy Share Image
In my acquaintance with John Rawls, I found him to be a simple and honest man, who just by chance also happened… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
To live with the work and the letters of James Joyce was an enormous privilege and a daunting education. Yes, I came… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“It would be the twentieth century before the opening of the British Headquarters Papers at the University of Michigan proved what the… — Willard Sterne Randall Copy Share Image
The twentieth century had dispensed with the formal declaration of war and introduced the fifth column, sabotage, cold war, and war by… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
I challenged myself to write/direct a romantic comedy. People trash talk the rom com, but it's one of the oldest cinematic genres,… — Leslye Headland Copy Share Image
When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Sometimes an event happens that is so great the world is never the same again after it. In the twentieth century one… — Terry Deary Copy Share Image
“The months after the fall of the Wall constituted one of the few points in history when the past seemed to lead… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
I'd like to turn the whole Jesus story around and look at it from a different vantage point, to consider that he… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind… — Amadeo Bordiga Copy Share Image
While public school history courses in the United States stress the horrors of the German Nazi murder of 6 million Jews and… — Jonathan Ott Copy Share Image
“All the glorified technological achievements of Progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem the Twentieth century's moral poverty which… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
