The nature of the new world system was not so different from the old. It was for the moment more stable, but… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
In the early 1970s, Milton Friedman argued that corporations should not be socially responsible because they had no mandate to be; they… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ...… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Nationalism is inspired by the highest ideals of the human race, satyam [the true], shivam [the god], sundaram [the beautiful]. Nationalism in… — Subhas Chandra Bose Copy Share Image
In this 21st century world, some of our country's most significant exports and imports extend beyond goods and services: They also include… — Kathleen Sebelius Copy Share Image
Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
With globalization and with a lot of power evaporating from the nation-states, the late-19th century established hierarchies of importance, or 'pecking orders'… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses. — Alasdair Gray Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
One of the most important secret societies of the 20th century is called the Round Table. It is based in Britain with… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Our objective must therefore be to ensure EU better regulation contributes towards delivering a modern European Union which relentlessly focuses on building… — John Hutton Copy Share Image
My aim is to change people's perceptions of what a hat can look like in the 21st century. — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
At one time, many philosophers held that faultless "laws of thought" were somehow inherent, a priori, in the very nature of mind.… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away. — John Lothrop Motley Copy Share Image
Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
An armed republic submits less easily to the rule of one of its citizens than a republic armed by foreign forces. Rome… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that the Great Lakes region will be at the center of an internally-focused North American economy when the hallucination of… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
