It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: "Humbly we pray that… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
Think of US slavery in 1850, or the subjection of women. Both of these injustices could have been - and were! -… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
The 21st century is the century of knowledge. Knowledge, science and education will have the power and strength to embrace the entire… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter whether we live in the 19th or 21st centuries; we face the same basic problems that everyone who lives… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Has not the experience of two centuries shown that gradualism in theory is perpetuity in practice? Is there an instance, in the… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
Jane Kindred’s THE HOUSE OF ARKHANGEL'SK dazzles with its surreal blending of worlds. Lost angel Anazakia, last survivor of her murdered family,… — Lynn Flewelling Copy Share Image
For those of us who have lived abroad and seen our nation in a highly competitive 21st century, and kind of see… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
It is, in both cases, that a spiritual life has been imparted to nature; that the solid seeming block of matter has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Mitt Romney has asked Todd Akin to step down. That's too bad. Todd Akin was the guy to lead the Republican Party… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants,… — Klaus Kinski Copy Share Image
Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised… — Norman Lockyer Copy Share Image
The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly. It's a problem that we… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelics drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
We have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries. — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved. — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
21st Century choice: Look after our planet and it will look after us, or don't and face the consequences — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
When my parents were growing up the world's population was under three billion. During my children's lifetime, it is likely to exceed… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus's statement: "He that is greatest among you shall be… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I've won some awards. 'Time' magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I've got… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century every case of a poor nation that… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In France, we have laïcité, which means that atheism is almost our state religion. But I think a very important part of… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for… — Bram Fischer Copy Share Image
The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go. — Edmund de Waal Copy Share Image
It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
