While it is a cause for regret that Fischer did not continue to produce scintillating games, he perhaps had a greater impact… — John Nunn Copy Share Image
That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is… — Mark Morris Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
As the twentieth century draws to a close it has become obvious that material yardsticks alone cannot serve as an adequate measure… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“This concern for those left behind by the rise of what Pope Francis calls a “savage capitalism” is perhaps the defining mission… — Simone Campbell Copy Share Image
The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature... It… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ensure that it… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
“In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I'd like to turn the whole Jesus story around and look at it from a different vantage point, to consider that he… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and… — Raoul Peck 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
“The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind… — Amadeo Bordiga Copy Share Image
To live with the work and the letters of James Joyce was an enormous privilege and a daunting education. Yes, I came… — Edna O'Brien 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
In my acquaintance with John Rawls, I found him to be a simple and honest man, who just by chance also happened… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The theory [before the twentieth century] ... was that all the jobs in the world belonged by right to men, and that… — Rheta Childe Dorr Copy Share Image
“These people were the first to master a new kind of late twentieth-century life. They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances,… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Not all writers are artists. But all of us like the idea of somebody in the year 2283 blowing the dust off… — William Attwood 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
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over… — Al Alvarez 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
Once Europe's colonial empires were sent into deep decline, thanks to World War II, America became globalization's primary replicating force, integrating Asia… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century man needs to be reminded at times that work is not the result of the Fall. Man was made to work,… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black… — Bill Ayers 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
When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt… — Eric Schlosser Copy Share Image
In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
'In the nineteenth century, we beat the British more than once,' Afghans often told me. 'In the twentieth century, we beat the… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It’s another part of the twentieth-century mind. It’s the world seen from inside. We’ve come… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“the country made itself stronger, more egalitarian, more effective in the world precisely during the mid-twentieth-century period when jurists were most willing… — Michael Waldman Copy Share Image
“Many cases of twentieth-century American map geekdom, it seems, began the same way that many twentieth-century Americans began: conceived in the backseats… — Ken Jennings Copy Share Image
In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image