The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have given us as much terror as we can take. We have paid a high enough price… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
Shopping malls are liquid TVs for the end of the twentieth century. A whole micro-circuitry of desire, ideology and expenditure for processed… — Arthur Kroker Copy Share Image
Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
By the end of the Twentieth Century, taxation will be reduced to a minimum, the entire world will be open to trade,… — Erastus Wiman Copy Share Image
The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Although the patriarchal ego prides itself on being reasonable, the twentieth century has been anything but the Age of Reason. In our… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
I still prefer to hear [Bob] Dylan acoustic, some of his electric songs are absolutely great. Electric music is the vernacular of… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The greatest historical events in the twentieth century - in fact, in all of human history - have been the overthrow of… — Grover Furr Copy Share Image
Nothing will convince and convict those around us like the peaceful and positive way you and I respond to our twentieth century… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
The twentieth century was marked by two broad trends: the regulation of capitalism and the deregulation of democracy. Both experiments overreached. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn,… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image