If you young people who today belong to the first generation of the 21st century make an effort now, you may be… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If you look through the century, certain things have gotten better and certain things have gotten worse. I wouldn't say overall that… — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit… — Abdelaziz Bouteflika Copy Share Image
Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks,… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Sometime in the coming century, people will rack their brains pondering how nations with tremendous scientific and intellectual achievements could have given… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
I think our children will be living on floating cities, and they will look back on the 20th Century, when people lived… — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
The Magna Carta is an early reminder of the crucial difference between freedom and liberty. Liberty is freedom that is unique to… — Manu Joseph Copy Share Image
The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
In the first centuries of Christianity the hungry were fed at a personal sacrifice, the naked were clothed at a personal sacrifice,… — Peter Maurin Copy Share Image
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes at lectures I am asked: how would the champions of the last century play today? I think that, after making a… — David Bronstein Copy Share Image
The early 20th Century was probably the high tide of global white supremacy - I'm going to call it that because that's… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to… — Balthus Copy Share Image
Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there had been no accumulation of knowledge, strictly speaking,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
For centuries great, brave, lonely men have been telling you what to do. Time and again you have corrupted, diminished and demolished… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social… — Ross McKitrick Copy Share Image
