No system in history capitalism has been more relentless in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, devouring the resources of whole regions,… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria because there were some ancient Celtic,… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Reason ought not, like vanity, to adorn herself with ancient parchments, and the display of a genealogical tree; more dignified in her… — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely! — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
I don't say that I'm an atheist. I don't like that term, because I think it mirrors the certitude of religion. I… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
The legal principle placing the burden of proof on accusers rather than the accused can be traced back to Second and Third… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
He thought about science, about faith, about man. he thought about how every culture, in every country, in every time, had always… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Ancient art has a specific inner content. At one time, art possessed the same purpose that books do in our day, namely:… — G. I. Gurdjieff Copy Share Image
The history of the Bible text is a romance of literature, though it is a romance of which the consequences are of… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - the oldest Hindu philosophy -… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Julian was not insensible of the advantages of freedom. From his studies he had imbibed the spirit of ancient sages and heroes;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
One of the things that you see ancient philosophers and contemporary scientists agree on is that strong relationships are a key to… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power over himself… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
When I was young, I couldn't imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
the ancient people perceived the world and themselves within that world as part of an ancient continuous story composed of innumerable bundles… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
During the Atlantean Cycle, the earth's aura, the invisible astral energy field that surrounds and protects our planet and through which all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
The story in that particular spot was an ancient history story, and we wanted to give it a historical feeling, which was… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely,… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
O, You who are ever giving life to all life, moving all creatures, root of all things, washing them clean, wiping out… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
When you are enlightened and have united your mind with the deepest and most ancient part of the mind of the universe,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The ancient Ionians were the first we know of to argue systematically that laws and forces of Nature, rather than gods, are… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I've just always been a coin collector, ever since my grandfather had some ancient coins that he passed down to me, it's… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
When I was young, beautiful ancient statues were castrated, so that the eye might not be corrupted… Nothing was gained, unless horses… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
No invader has ever conquered the heart of Poland, that spirit which is the inheritance of sons and daughters, the private passion… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
His own voice was older than he was. Ancient, unearthed from some mystical subterranean place...The voice seemed to make his whole body… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient -… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
The new history is really ancient history newly discovered. Journalists are taking crash courses in the blood-drenched background of Serbs, Croats, Bosnians,… — Henry Grunwald Copy Share Image
It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter "Iceland" where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
