Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“But by the fourth decade of the twentieth century all the main currents of political thought were authoritarian. The earthly paradise had… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Social historians of the future no doubt will be amused by the fact that we late-twentieth-century Americans found it acceptable to discuss… — Mary Ann Glendon Copy Share Image
If the twentieth century is to be better than the nineteenth, it will be because there are among us men who walk… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To have a great university library near you with plenty of archives of all the journals that you want to research in… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Those who got the twentieth century right, whether in anticipation [..] or as contemporary observations, had to be able to imagine a… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of… — Peggy Phelan Copy Share Image
Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one… — Daniel D. Polsby Copy Share Image
“The months after the fall of the Wall constituted one of the few points in history when the past seemed to lead… — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
“Sometimes an event happens that is so great the world is never the same again after it. In the twentieth century one… — Terry Deary Copy Share Image
I challenged myself to write/direct a romantic comedy. People trash talk the rom com, but it's one of the oldest cinematic genres,… — Leslye Headland Copy Share Image
When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The twentieth century had dispensed with the formal declaration of war and introduced the fifth column, sabotage, cold war, and war by… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that's still with us today, which… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
“the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men can find themselves standing… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature…Ultimately, the… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
What's interesting to me is that in the late twentieth century it seems that there's scarcely a part of the world that… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
Myths hook and bind the mind because at the same time they set the mind free: they explain the universe while allowing… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to… — Peter Lewis Allen Copy Share Image
I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Whoever takes it upon himself to write an honest intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe will need a strong stomach. But he will… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“It would be the twentieth century before the opening of the British Headquarters Papers at the University of Michigan proved what the… — Willard Sterne Randall Copy Share Image
Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century exponents of prefabrication were certain it would supplant age-old traditions of individualized design and handcrafted construction. The building art… — Martin Filler 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
The trouble with Christianity was that by about 150, there were hardly any Jews left in the Christian church, and so from… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
My links with [Mahatma] Gandhi now are very political links because I do not believe there is any other politics available to… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is the retention by twentieth-century, Atom-Age men of the Neolithic point of view that says: You stay in your village and… — Carleton S. Coon Copy Share Image
It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift… — Rodney Clapp Copy Share Image
So long as our textbooks hide from us the roles that people of color have played in exploration, from at least 6000… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
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