The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We… — Mahnaz Afkhami Copy Share Image
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
Lemberger's stories are marvelous compounds of scholarship, imagination and empathy. Brought to life with rich historical detail, these biblical women, sidelined and… — Michelle Huneven Copy Share Image
Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
The end of World War I also marked the end of bourgeois culture. An inner emptiness developed that, in the 19th and… — Walter Kasper Copy Share Image
This century is going to be linked with the virtual world. Maybe in the days to come we will have virtual malls… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature…Ultimately, the… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
Virtually throughout its history, and certainly in the 20th century, California has been known as the place to go for dynamism and… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint,… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Theosophy occupies a central place in the history of new spiritual movements, for the writings of Blavatsky and some of her followers… — Robert S Ellwood Copy Share Image
From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
We have imagined ourselves a special creation, set apart from other humans. In the last twentieth century, we see that our povertyis… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
What's interesting to me is that in the late twentieth century it seems that there's scarcely a part of the world that… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The factory model of education is the wrong model for the 21st century. Today, our schools must prepare all students for college… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
If you young people who today belong to the first generation of the 21st century make an effort now, you may be… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If Bush had read all the documents about the Russians and British in Afghanistan in the 19th century, he would have not… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The tendencies are considerably weaker in the natural sciences, which, for the past several centuries, have survived and flourished through such constant… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The fundamental landscape of biology is undergoing a major upheaval, much as it did in the first decades of the 20th Century.… — Michael R. Rose Copy Share Image
Sixty thousand blacks are annually embarked from the coast of Guinea, never to return to their native country; but they are embarked… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Within the next hundred years...nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority... National sovereignty… — Strobe Talbott Copy Share Image
Her death would leave me scattered, talking to chairs and pillows. Don't let us die, I want to cry out to that… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The health-care law, irrespective of how people feel about the aims of it - and obviously I don't agree with Obamacare -… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I like 'nerves'! I like the word 'migraineur'. I like the word 'madness'. These are OK words. The 19th century had a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals)… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
Indeed, I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I looked at art as a way of blending everything. One of my favorite composers is Wagner… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
We have a hieroglyphical inscription in the British Museum as early as the reign of Sevechus of the eighth century before the… — Samuel Sharpe Copy Share Image
When I submitted samples, I had only written stories to give myself something to draw. I was told, "The art is good,… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
I want to reduce America's deficit by cutting spending that we don't need but also by asking the wealthy to do a… — Barack Obama 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
For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
The US has unthinkingly embarked upon a neoimperial policy that must involve us in virtually every great war of the coming century-and… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
