Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Bohemian Grove seems to be a kind of frat house affair. Bilderberg [philosophy] may be marginally more serious. The CFR is transparent.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Thanks to the leadership of Vice President Gore, we have a government for the Information Age, once again a government that is… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
For centuries the Bible's emphasis on compassion and love for our neighbor has inspired institutional and governmental expressions of benevolent outreach such… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The sex drive is one of the most fundamental human urges, and throughout history, there have been laws regulating what is considered… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
The industrial revolution that defined the first half of the 20 century marked the start of modern business, typified by high-volume, large-scale… — Steven Sinofsky Copy Share Image
Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
The great secret to success is that there are no secrets of success. There are only timeless principles that have proven effective… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not… — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean,… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way. — Richard Ellmann Copy Share Image
We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much less globalization now than we did then. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“16th century advertisements cannot market 21st century products. Look for what is necessary at the present moment.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The 'will to peace' is the best answer that we can imagine to the 'will to war', which unfortunately seems as strong… — David Petersen Copy Share Image
There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
The Arab world is also the world that produced some of the greatest improvements in mathematics and in science. Even today, when… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
The human brain finds it extremely hard to cope with a new level of abstraction. This is why it was well into… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
