We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Specifically, the part where in the early 19th century America reconstituted the U.S. Marine Corps to battle the Islamic Barbary Pirates, though… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Bible tells us there will be a time for peace. But, so far in this century, mankind has failed to find… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer,… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Buddhist monks have known for centuries that meditation can change the mind. Now we are inspired by His Holiness to examine with… — Richard Davidson Copy Share Image
We alter and customize the thing every century, every generation, every day - both in the courts and in our own homes.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The chief moral obligation of the 21st Century is to build a green economy that is strong enough to lift people out… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
When you undergo a visionary experience, what you are really doing is blowing your socially conditioned, 20th century, hive mind and allowing… — Steve Kubby Copy Share Image
The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
For 60 years, Social Security has meant more than an ID number on a tax form; more than a monthly check in… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
An ethic of maternalism was central to the utopianism of 19th century feminists. I don't think that today's women see motherhood as… — Clare Wright Copy Share Image
“Yes, our century is called the 21st century, but some countries are in the 16th century, some leaders in the 9th century,… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
The world is moving into a phase when landscape design may well be recognized as the most comprehensive of the arts. Man… — Geoffrey Jellicoe Copy Share Image
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed,-chased and hunted down as… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known… — Petr Skrabanek Copy Share Image
The poet's role has changed over the centuries, the ages. The poets, the griots, used to be the keepers of the facts;… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
If two or three hundred years from now an earthbound civilization is dying ... and they look back at the opportunity that… — Paul Levinson Copy Share Image
God raises up such men as John Bunyan and William Huntington but once in a century. — William Romaine Copy Share Image
After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I believe that we have the first genius of the 21st century, Leo Messi. — Jorge Valdano Copy Share Image
