It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands… — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau Copy Share Image
As for a climactic conflict between a once-Christian West and an Islamic world that is growing in numbers and advancing inexorably into… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, a new… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
The greatest discovery of the 19th century was not in the realm of the physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious… — William James Copy Share Image
I think that by the middle of this century people will still be eating meat (though less), and their meat will mostly… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries, we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it. — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
We tried some experiments in mind reading which were not very successful. Think mind reading contrary to common sense, wise provision of… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
It was a different social structure. I'd go to [David] Bailey's for dinner at 10:30. There were always girls there and a… — Manolo Blahnik Copy Share Image
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
History matters. It matters whether we tell the truth about what happened centuries ago, and it matters whether we tell the truth… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
I've come to believe that God, in His wisdom, allows martyrdom in every generation in part because, without them, the reality of… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
Going to the Huntington gardens and libraries was radically important for me. They have one of the best collections of 18th- and… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding tosuch an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
All we can say is that, as the result of a process which went on from the fourth century to about the… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
Practices such as arranged marriages and restrictions on girls attending school have deep roots, and changing them is a gradual process. Sometimes… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
All the major social movements of the 20th century had great soundtracks - We need that. The left needs better propaganda, because… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
America has never had a very wide vocabulary for miscegenation. We say we like diversity, but we don't like the idea that… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose. — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
If outside forces and culture were the reasons behind declining and non-influential churches, we would likely have no churches today. The greatest… — Thom S. Rainer Copy Share Image
Today, I want to talk about Social Security and how all of us can ensure that one of the greatest achievements of… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“If, years later, I do use the slit detector to observe which way the electron went, it will mean that many years… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
For more than a century, people have often thought that the conclusion to draw from Darwin's vision is that Homo sapiens, our… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
To fail to properly contextualize content has historically been the basis for the slaughter of millions of people in every century throughout… — David Hawkins Copy Share Image
As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. — M. H. Abrams Copy Share Image
I am a futurist, projecting trends in science into the next decades and century, but ironically my two daughters - one is… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image