Originating with such figures as T. H. Huxley, who sought to bring Darwin's ideas to the masses, the popular science genre moved… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
“How much of twentieth-century poetry, how much of my own poetry, is the cry of the damned?” — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Should an anthropologist or a sociologist be looking for a bizarre society to study, I would suggest he come to Ulster. It… — Bernadette Devlin Copy Share Image
It is often difficult to know about one's own era which philosophers in it will be remembered as the most important ones,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The world is a colony of the US. The twentieth century was the US's century. — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book. — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there… — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
There was also a national policy, which as a child I didn't know anything about. In 1924 the first major immigration law… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It remained for the twentieth century to discover that locked within the atom is the energy of the sun itself. For this… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
If two or three hundred years from now an earthbound civilization is dying ... and they look back at the opportunity that… — Paul Levinson Copy Share Image
One of the most intensely unlikeable figures of the twentieth century, fanatical anti-Semite, enemy of labour unions and proud recipient of medals… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism… — Albion Woodbury Small Copy Share Image
I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of… — Emil Fackenheim Copy Share Image
I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers. — Penelope Wilton Copy Share Image
Like twentieth-century Iran, the remnant of the Persian Empire, Ethiopia under Haile Selassie attempted to preserve the absolutist state throught an accommodation… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems,… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image