It’s notable that the countries that most pride themselves on their commitment to equality, human rights, and democracy (like the United States… — Aviva Chomsky Copy Share Image
You had a flood of immigrants, millions of them, coming to this country. What brought them here? It was the hope for… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Last century we needed lawyers; this century we need big, broad coalitions. When extremists decide to attack all our communities, they must… — Benjamin Todd Jealous Copy Share Image
Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
I would say, compared with the 19th century, compared with most previous history, this is as good or better a society than… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Many of the problems the world faces today are the eventual result of short-term measures taken last century. — Jay Wright Forrester Copy Share Image
Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in… — Edward Witten Copy Share Image
What's great about it is that painting doesn't move. And so in the 21st century, when we're used to clicking and browsing… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Our top-down pyramid style of management is a very old concept borrowed from centuries of war and monarchies. — James Hunter Copy Share Image
I think what drove me away from being a reporter was an inability to accept that the world came in neat stories.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We are all here on this planet, as it were, as tourists. None of us can live here forever. The longest we… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Nowas you all know, this week, Pope Benedict told Vatican Radio—you know, Vatican Radio, playing the hits from the 8th century, 9th… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It is a poor observance of our first century as a nation if we run up a flag of surrender with three… — Charlotte Whitton Copy Share Image
But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
On the basis of my historical experience, I fully believe that mathematics of the 25th century will be as different from that… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
This is not the 19th century, where actors are expected to play completely opposite roles. We're not typecast, but we're brought in… — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
The Department of Homeland Security is a strategic feel good measure. It's going to be the Department of Agriculture for the 21st… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong was the primary contributor to jazz music in the 20th century. His improvisational skills served as the principal model for… — Ellis Marsalis, Jr Copy Share Image
I think one of the great bits of The Muppet show is that it was set in a 19th century British theater… — James Bobin Copy Share Image
A warming of this magnitude would risk the end of civilization as we know it by the end of this century. — Peter Barrett Copy Share Image
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar, — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I believe that America has the opportunity to once again live by our values, live up to our values in the 21st… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I was in a… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to… — Fatema Mernissi Copy Share Image
Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague. — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the people of the United States are going to take people who have been here a quarter… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I can imagine in a century or two that rule by women will be seen as a better bet than rule by… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Rent is about a community celebrating life, in the face of death and AIDS, at the turn of the century. — Jonathan Larson Copy Share Image
In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
