The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny.… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to… — Chen Shui-bian Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the paintings… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
John Paul II was one of the greatest men of the last century. Perhaps the greatest. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
What we have seen in financial markets should bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think that America could not become America until it dealt with the disenfranchisement of women and African Americans in the last… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Indeed, through fundamental advances in bionics in this century, we will set the technological foundation for an enhanced human experience, and we… — Hugh Herr Copy Share Image
I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The generation of youth in the early 21st century has no way of grasping if they will ever be free from the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Well, what are we waiting for? ...She said 'children.' I bet that's anyone under a couple of centuries old. Let's go. — Donita K. Paul Copy Share Image
The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
The Bureau of Justice reports that one in three black male babies born this century will go to jail or prison -… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
We've got to be delivering young people, and people that are getting reeducated, people who are getting reemployed, into the marketplace with… — Ann McLane Kuster Copy Share Image
Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was… — Mickey Mantle Copy Share Image
The decline of witch-belief was . . . entirely the product of religious skepticism. . . . The Catholic Church did not… — S. T. Joshi Copy Share Image
