I don't quite see the 20th century as one of chaos. But I believe in certain inevitable outcomes of a materialist nature. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There's this Indian fellow who worked out a cycle like the idea of stone-age, bronze-age, only he did it on an Indian… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
The idea of America endures. Our destiny remains our choice. And tonight, more than two centuries later, it is because of our… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The 20th century was the century of war and blood. The 21st century is the century of dialogue. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure… — Gary Becker Copy Share Image
The E.U. is a backward-looking project based on an economic model of the 20th century. — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
Living becomes a glorious experience only when it is sweetened by tolerance and love. Willingness to compromise with others ways of living… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I'm a true reactionary. Like all patricians, I'd like to restore the original republic, which we lost 40 years ago when Harry… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The Russians and rogue actors, including ISIS - this is a serious part of the 21st century security challenge that we face. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
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The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit… — George Ripley Copy Share Image
You can assume that if a writer's work has survived for centuries, there are reasons why this is so, explanations that have… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
In this century we have made remarkable material progress, but basically we are the same as we were thousands of years ago.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The best way to improve the American workforce in the 21st century is to invest in early childhood education, to ensure that… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
This movement among the Jews is not new... This world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When war is not just it is subsequently justified; so it becomes many things. In reality, an unjust war is merely piracy.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
We must appreciate that all over the world, right down the centuries, there have been great religions that have encouraged the idea… — Nelson Mandela 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
Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature - the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I think that a true economics thinker or a Marxist thinker would make nonsense of my argument, although I have given massive… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Darwin, Marx, and Freud meet. They may have understood other things, but the human soul, and in particular the soul of Culture-man,… — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
Wagner's philosophy had absolutely nothing to do with Bruckner. Bruckner hadn't written a single word against Jews. Wagner's book on the Jews… — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
In 1972 Charlie Chaplin was allowed back to America to receive an honorary Oscar, 'for the incalculable he had on making motion… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
IT is an astonishing thing that historians will look back and puzzle over, that in the 21st century, American women were such… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Human beings have been smart enough to turn nature to their ends, generate vast wealth for themselves, and double their average life… — Thomas Homer-Dixon Copy Share Image
It's a sign of this film's greatness that the enormous sadness that accompanies the final leave-taking of the circus interior is a… — Jonathan Rosenbaum Copy Share Image
George Kennan and Paul Nitze were the Adams and Jefferson of the Cold War. They were there for the beginning, they witnessed… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
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