The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
One of the most persistent fallacies about the Christian Church is that it kept learning alive during the Dark and Middle Ages.… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21st century. Will… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
In the late 19th century, the Populists - a protest movement of mainly disaffected farmers and workers - threatened to overturn established… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
The 21st century will not be about the battle between capitalism and socialism but between the forces of progress and the forces… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
American family life has never been particularly idyllic. In the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of all children experienced the death of… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the… — Richard Conniff Copy Share Image
The 20th century was a century in which human rights were infringed upon in numerous parts of the world, and Japan also… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments… — Frederick W. Smith Copy Share Image
If art is to flourish in the twenty-first century, it must renew its moral authority by rededicating itself to life. It must… — Frederick Hart Copy Share Image
One man saying that everything is wrong can command coast-to-coast attention in living color, a power not given to an absolute monarch… — Walter Wriston Copy Share Image
In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
It`s difficult to judge people from 100 years ago by today`s standards. But I go back into the early middle part of… — Steve King Copy Share Image
The scientists at the end of the 19th century had people coming to them with this weird behaviour, and they didn't know… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
"The pattern established at the outset has remained to this day, and the Spaniards still do nothing save tear the natives to… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
BIRTH, n. The first and direst of all disasters. As to the nature of it there appears to be no uniformity. Castor… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The most important question of the 21st century is not what or how much, it is 'How?' How do you propose to… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Whoever takes it upon himself to write an honest intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe will need a strong stomach. But he will… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive… — Robert Fagles Copy Share Image
Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century. As for… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the… — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
My mouth gaped and I think I might have whimpered. The Norns had obliterated him completely—a creature they’d known for centuries—because of… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
Perfume has a long and fascinating history and the beautifully crafted bottles used to store it over the centuries demonstrate its importance.… — Judith Miller Copy Share Image
In the two centuries that have passed since 1776, millions upon millions of Americans have worked and taken up arms when necessary… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
To be a professional golfer in the 21st century, you must be an athlete. — Paige Spiranac Copy Share Image
she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of. — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
We have an obligation to each other to not only push our politicians, but to push companies to do right by their… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
The revolutions of my century, the 20th century - the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in… — Stephane Hessel Copy Share Image
The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
