The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one. — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, 'Earth' meaning the riches of the… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
The intensive use of photographs by mass media lays ever fresh responsibilities upon the photographer. We have to acknowledge the existence of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
When you think about what Homo sapiens are about, you almost feel that we are replacing ourselves. We won't be able to… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern… — Gianni Vattimo Copy Share Image
I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
In the midst of each epoch, I fully realize that a new epoch will dawn. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
In our case, we are in the Cenozoic Era, which started at the end of the time of the dinosaurs. We are… — Kenneth Lacovara Copy Share Image
Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people. — August Sander Copy Share Image
It is only when people begin to shake loose from their preconceptions, from the ideas that have dominated them, that we begin… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
Like every man who appears at an epoch which is historical and rendered famous by his works, Jesus Christ has a history,… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
I know that there are many persons to whom it seems derogatory to link a body of philosophic ideas to the social… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption. — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
My sense is that we are missing a huge part of the human story. I think it's possible, indeed probable, that we… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
Seldom can two such epoch-making events have occurred in successive years as happened then. In 1453 the Turks stormed Constantinople and finally… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
Irrespective of todays judgment and the price we had to pay in this generation, we were able to close an epoch of… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing… — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
