Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
It is those moral and spiritual qualities which rise alone in free men, which will fulfill the meaning of the word American.… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
In the 18th century, people began to adopt the radical new idea that love should be the most fundamental reason for marriage… — Jardine Libaire Copy Share Image
“I had only to remember that centuries before, men fell in battle for the daughter of Troy, that passions carried greater weight… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There is absolutely nothing democratic about the "global arrangement" through which the West has been ruling over the rest of the world… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
That one lesson that African American communities have learned over the centuries in America is that you can't just take for granted… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that… — Eileen Myles 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
I have met with political leaders, legislators, and diplomats, seeking the next steps to press in reducing and eliminating the nuclear threat… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history. — John Bruton Copy Share Image
I think water transport will see a revival. However, we're not going to replay the 20th century. The industrial city of that… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as… — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best testimony to the effectiveness of the reforms of 1852 is the fact, that men of a slightly later generation,… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
We [with Shindzo Abe] should understand that the results of that terrible tragedy of the 20th century, namely World War II, are… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED — William Rathbone Greg Copy Share Image
I read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I think will subsequently be recognized as one of the first great… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for theeighteenth century reader, the most… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot—a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with… — John Green Copy Share Image
The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
![“We [with Shindzo Abe] should understand that the results of…” quote by Vladimir Putin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d5c/vladimir-putin-261_20th-century_we-with-shindzo-abe-should-understand-th_621398.jpg)
