A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
I'm reasonably optimistic about the future, especially the future of the United States - for the century, at least. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
No female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they… — Chuck Palahniuk 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
All share in the government of the world was denied for centuries to perhaps the ablest, certainly the most tenacious race that… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Being young and trying to catch a glimpse of the depths, of the true self, of the soul, or whatever human beings… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago? — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Where was the libertarian right during the great struggles for individual liberty in America in the last half-century? The libertarian movement has… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic… — Richard Courant Copy Share Image
Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
I have lived with my conscience and my own memories for over quarter of a century since the events of 1973. These… — Augusto Pinochet Copy Share Image
From the 15th century to 1688, England and Wales, like Scotland, had been peripheral kingdoms in the European power game, more often… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
The sources of our knowledge of the kabalistic doctrines are the books of Yetzirah and Zohar, the former drawn up in the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I think we're in a very distinctively different historical moment. I mean, I think that you had two things that were operating… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I could fall in love with a cruel desert that kills without passion, a canyon full of scorpions, one thousand blinding arctic… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Ho Kyuns poetry is in the tradition of his master, the incomparable Tu Fu, while remaining fully his own. Writing nine centuries… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
I'm creative in my own life. I'm creative when I step out the door. I'm creative when I pick up a glass.… — Jaye Davidson Copy Share Image
The Cuban people along with international solidarity defeated this imperial position [America] in the middle of the 21st century and have demonstrated… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
