In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong. — William Weld Copy Share Image
...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete. — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
To equate Vladimir Putin and the United States of America, as Donald Trump was asked, you know, I guess it was Bill… — John McCain Copy Share Image
I’m elated. I guess it’s better late than never. Welcome to the 21st century. It’s fantastic. I love Dior, and Rihanna is… — Beverly Johnson Copy Share Image
I've never regretted I was born too soon. I'm proud to be a child of the twentieth century. I'm satisfied to join… — Naz?m Hikmet Copy Share Image
I don't wish to treat you like an inferior: that is (correcting himself), I claim only such superiority as must result from… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a… — Roger Corman Copy Share Image
Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
It was only since the turn of the century that one returned to the immense role that abstraction plays in the human… — Sigfried Giedion Copy Share Image
Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse. — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
[Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The great moral question of the twenty-first century is this: if all knowledge, all culture, all art, all useful information can be… — Eben Moglen Copy Share Image
All the great masters in the world have been saying only one thing down the centuries, "Have your own mind and have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Time for a new business model for the 21st century. For starters, retire that outdated and creepy clown. You can be a… — Michele Simon Copy Share Image
The world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves can not drown him. He snaps his fingers at laws; and so,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals. — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but that society is now a reflex of key… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
I wonder how many people would have thought at the end of World War II that the capitalist system would be one… — Sanford I. Weill Copy Share Image
When people think that moral problems can be solved by some simple strategy of calculation, that sets them up for ghastly overreaching.… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead,… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
Putin probably, almost certainly, thinks that one of the great disasters of the 20th century was the demise of the Soviet Union.… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The plodding thrift and scrupulous integrity and long-winded patient industry of our business men of the last century are out of fashion… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
I think it's important to realise that what happens in Neo-Platonism beginning with Plotinus and Porphyry and then going on for the… — Peter Adamson Copy Share Image
Learning how to respond to and master the process of change - and even to excel at it - is a critical… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had… — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
The acceptability of birth control has always depended on a morality that separates sex from reproduction. In the nineteenth century, when the… — Linda Gordon Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of… — John Irving Copy Share Image
What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? ... The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Given how long philosophers have been at conceptual analysis (I mean the 20th century stuff), and how many have been doing it,… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven"… — George William Russell Copy Share Image
In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
What the printing press is to Christianity in the 16th century, that's what the Internet is doing to Islam now. It has… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
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