The philosophy of love and peace strangely overlooked who was in possession of the guns. There had been love and peace for… — Bessie Head Copy Share Image
Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
When the war started, religion and superstition (whatever the difference is) permeated the lives of ordinary soldiers, who lived in a thought… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
And they stuck to their guns and fought for Sean Connery, and they were right to fight for Sean Connery. If it… — Barbara Broccoli Copy Share Image
Spielberg's film portrays Oscar as a hero of this century. That is not true. Neither he nor I were heroes. We were… — Emilie Schindler Copy Share Image
[Apostol Paul's] views were translated as, "Your rule is to be kind to black people; you don't beat them." It's very much… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil… — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age...The evils… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I often think of it this way: The 21st century is going to be a war on the attention of humanity. Where… — Jesse Schell Copy Share Image
To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so… — Janet Napolitano Copy Share Image
You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
In truth, Wall Street is in for a radical makeover. Fewer people, lower margins, lower risk, lower compensation - and ultimately, fewer… — Andrew Ross Sorkin Copy Share Image
... for centuries there has been a long and honorable tradition of women who have resisted and protested against men and their power. — Dale Spender Copy Share Image
The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem underscores how stable mathematics is through the centuries - how mathematics is one of humanity's long… — Barry Mazur Copy Share Image
Indeed, as we begin the twenty-first century, the money and traditional economies are slowly destroying their own support system. Increasing demands of… — Stuart L. Hart Copy Share Image
Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising. The rules which we make up at the beginning… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh 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
In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image