The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I'm sympathetic to the people who go, "Whoa, we'd like to have the benevolent, wise dictator. It will all work much more… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The demolishment of the power of organized Christianity in the Western world to finally realize the emancipation of women and give them… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Yes, business really does change. 400 years ago, corporations were formed by royal decree. 300 years ago, many countries were powered by… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
I was born in Den Bosch, where the painter Hieronymus Bosch named himself after. And so I've always been very fond of… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
For over a century, popular struggles in the democracies have used the nation-state to temper raw capitalism. The power of voters has… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
If you look over a list of medicinal recipes in vogue in the last century, how foolish and useless they are seen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Wendy Doniger has spent decades collecting not only myths from ancient texts but stories of all kinds from novels, movies, newspapers about… — Roberto Calasso Copy Share Image
All of Robert Caro's biographies are exceptional, in part because of Caro's fundamental ambivalence about power. He sees its necessity and use… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
We've wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Christendom never came from an unbroken grave. It would have been buried in that grave, as Judas thought it was going to… — Richard Salter Storrs Copy Share Image
Kriya is an ancient science,” Yogananda writes. Mahavatar Babaji rediscovered and clarified the technique after it had been lost in the Dark… — Lahiri Mahasaya Copy Share Image
It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
The American tradition of foreign policy exceptionalism, our grand strategy as a nation, reaches back much further. Really at the turn -… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
It is ironic that the scientific facts throw Darwin out, but leave William Paley, a figure of fun to the scientific world… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
There is no doubt about it that it is more difficult for a woman to follow a career than for a man.… — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
Literacy is much more than an educational priority - it is the ultimate investment in the future and the first step towards… — Irina Bokova Copy Share Image
I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth.… — Alexandra Kerry Copy Share Image
I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past… — Arrian Copy Share Image
