Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage. — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
What we need most is to restore and revive our humanity. We must create a society where people can live with dignity,… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Social Democracy preached against capitalism for half a century. After the November revolution the Reds had the opportunity to direct capitalism into… — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year,… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
And the art was in every corner and wall... a Mural of the Century of Progress in Colombia South America is rich… — Santiago Martinez Delgado Copy Share Image
I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to… — Vicente Fox Copy Share Image
This oration will be read five hundred years hence with as much rapture as it was heard. It ought to be read… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I hope we have learned throughout centuries of revolution and reaction that it's really a shift in consciousness that we need. And… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Intellectual property is the oil of the 21 century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their… — Mark Getty Copy Share Image
The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
The sets of 'Lootera' itself transport you to the 15th century, since everything was designed according to that era. — Vikrant Massey Copy Share Image
There has been talk of lack of consensus, but we all know that this is the veto of foreign powers, the intolerable… — Rafael Correa Copy Share Image
I still prefer going to the classical writers, the modernists and the nineteenth century writers. Much of what has been done since… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
For daughters of the new American billionaires of the 19th century, it was the ultimate deal: marriage to a cash-strapped British Aristocrat… — Daisy Goodwin Copy Share Image
It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Some time ago a little-known Scottish philosopher wrote a book on what makes nations succeed and what makes them fail. The Wealth… — George Akerlof Copy Share Image
Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?"… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages. — Cullen Murphy Copy Share Image
As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Centuries ago, human beings created marriage. Later, they looked to the sky and dreamt of traveling to the moon. Coincidence? — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
Mother Teresa, the nun who in the last century dedicated her long life to helping the poor, is now a saint. — Rachel Martin Copy Share Image
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at… — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
For the past two centuries, those who do not prize freedom have chipped away at every major clause of our Constitution until… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization… — John Cage Copy Share Image
I have been using the art of photography to research the ways in which the pictorial strategies of the Nineteenth Century color… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
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