I would say, compared with the 19th century, compared with most previous history, this is as good or better a society than… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Russia was the last to leave the 19th century and the most rapid to enter the mandates of the 20th century. It… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
The original Jethro Tull was a 19th century English agriculturist who invented a seed drill you see. The first automatic process where… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who… — Andrew Mwenda Copy Share Image
During the 19th century, Iranians lost vast territories in disastrous wars, and corrupt monarchs sold everything of value in the country to… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
We can't return to the 19th century, draw up our drawbridges and say, we don't have anything to do with each other,… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher… — Donna Shalala Copy Share Image
Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
Reality itself is steadily becoming more colored. Think of what factories were like, especially in Italy at the beginning of the 19th… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I was really interested in 20th century communalism and alternative communities, the boom of communes in the 60s and 70s. That led… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
The greatest economic minds of the 19th century, all of them without exception, considered economic growth as a temporary necessity. When all… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
I define the terms "founding fathers" and "founders" broadly to include an entire generation or two of Americans from many walks of… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by all the new technology that creates places for us to meet in what is called cyberspace. I understand… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
The Bin Ladens must not be confused with authentic jihad - it's quite something else. If you want an example of external… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
The 19th-century pure capitalist model of society was a pyramid, concentrations of enormous wealth in a small group at the top, a… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Market capitalism survived and prospered after the boom-bust industrial revolution of the 19th century, and the Great Depression and world wars of… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
One of the founding moments of public health in the 19th century effectively poisoned the water supply of London much more effectively… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
With globalization and with a lot of power evaporating from the nation-states, the late-19th century established hierarchies of importance, or 'pecking orders'… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century… — Robert Nelson Copy Share Image
Fiction is no longer the dominant storytelling device of our time. In the 19th century it worked great, and fiction was the… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“the 19th century saw the rise of what we came to call linear thought, a way of processing the world that was… — Alena Graedon Copy Share Image
The United States' poetry emerged when there was a high literacy rate in the United States, even in the 19th century. People… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I keep on reading the Morning Star newspaper to see if there's any hope, but it seems to be in the 19th… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Going to the Huntington gardens and libraries was radically important for me. They have one of the best collections of 18th- and… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The democratic ideal has always been related to a moderate level of inequality. I think one big reason why electoral democracy flourished… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
People say we're running out of energy. That's only true if we stick with these old 19th century technologies. We are awash… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“I have found that those who try to shield us from the truth, regardless of the reason, end up doing the greatest… — Jessica Dotta Copy Share Image
The demolishment of the power of organized Christianity in the Western world to finally realize the emancipation of women and give them… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
