The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
According to the management expert Peter F. Drucker, the term "entrepreneur" (from the French, meaning "one who takes into hand") was introduced… — David Bornstein Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
The twentieth century saw an amazing development of scholarship and criticism in the humanities, carried out by people who were more intelligent,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure.… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience… — Will Self Copy Share Image
The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and… — Emmet Gowin Copy Share Image
While public school history courses in the United States stress the horrors of the German Nazi murder of 6 million Jews and… — Jonathan Ott Copy Share Image
It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me… — Robert L. Devaney Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not be… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
