In the highest antiquity, (the people) did not know that…

In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In…

— Laozi

From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power.

— Casey Miller

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.

— Christopher Hitchens

I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity.

— Oleg Cassini

In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage…

— Mikhail Bakunin

An established government has an infinite advantage, by that very circumstance of its being established--the bulk of mankind being governed by authority, not reason,…

— David Hume

Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity…

— Anonymous

In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns…

— Luigi Russolo

While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum , or in disputes…

— Benjamin Rush

“Since antiquity, men have defined themselves by those who are excluded.”

— Jim Robinson

What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs…

— Edward Everett

“A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor, appeared in…

— Norman F. Cantor

Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given…

— Carl Jung

The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be…

— Helen Keller