Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is often reported that the Five Points of Calvinism are the conceptual hard-core of Reformed thought. That is very misleading. The… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known face of the eighteenth century, no one ever… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
A father of the church said that property was theft, many centuries before Proudhon was born. Bourdaloue reaffirmed it. Montesquieu was the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
In the new century, we should continue to work together to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the vast number of… — Li Peng Copy Share Image
I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's… — Cecilia Bartoli Copy Share Image
History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight. — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
In the beginning of the 19th century, maybe forty percent of women and fifty percent of men could produce a signature, which… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Both the 18th and the early 20th centuries, however, feature brilliant attacks on originality, and it's no doubt one of the hallmarks… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower… — Silas Weir Mitchell Copy Share Image
I don't know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd,… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
We have to get tough with the Russians. They don't know how to behave. They are like bulls in a china shop.… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer that education is the most efficient tool we have to make people aware and make our children aware,… — Shakira Copy Share Image
Biblical archaeology was developed early in this century in an effort to substantiate the authenticity of the Biblical account. It's by now… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We have two distinct types of political organization to take into account; and clearly, too, when their origins are considered, it is… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
In 1889, I predict, the legislative stage of the Irish question will have arrived; and the union with England, which shall then… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries. — Betty Dodson Copy Share Image
It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment. — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century. — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
When the great Kepler bad at length discovered the harmonic laws that regulate the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: "Whether… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth"… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end… — Edward James Olmos Copy Share Image
I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Stewart Davenport conscientiously and insightfully re-creates the world of the nineteenth-century political economists, who taught that the principles of international trade manifested,… — Daniel Walker Howe Copy Share Image
Order can arise from chaos without anyone or anything directing the process when unstable combinations of atoms perish and others persist. In… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. — Philip Shabecoff Copy Share Image
