We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
We have converted huge swaths of land and ocean into human habitats where we live and grow food and harvest energy. But… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
In just the past century we have almost doubled the percentage of fat in our diets--from 20% in 1910 to about 35% today. — Paul Zane Pilzer Copy Share Image
For the past century or so that's [ Monroe Doctrine] actually been true, but it's declining very significantly. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The 'corporatization of America' during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as… — Phil Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The greatest advancements in living standards over the past century have been coincident with affordable energy. — John S. Watson Copy Share Image
How lucky we are to be able to see and hear so much of our history over the past century as it… — Jerry Springer Copy Share Image
An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way… — Edith Hall Copy Share Image
We're at a historical juncture: A growing number of people are declaring what has been achieved over the past decades in Europe… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Perhaps it has been too uncomfortable for those with vested interests to acknowledge, but we have spent the best part of the… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not… — Annie Elizabeth Delany Copy Share Image
“Older people sometimes talk about the good old days when life was better. In fact, they talk nostalgically about their own youth… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
The earthquake in Haiti was a class-based catastrophe. It didn't much harm the wealthy elite up in the hills, they were shaken… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent? — Leon Kass Copy Share Image
It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins. — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image