Earlier Times Quotes

19 quotes by 19 authors

It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as… — Wystan Hugh Auden
In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles,… — Stephen Leacock
The more real things get, the more like myths they become. There have always been myths, but the myths of earlier times were, Im convinced,… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or… — Bertrand Russell
In an echo of earlier times, the climate change prophets have in recent years tried to silence counter views and suppress dissent. August members of… — Colin Robinson
The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows and Amazons are… — Richard Dawkins
I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind — Unknown Author
Following directly behind the bier were the servants who would, in earlier times, have been slaughtered at the graveside, along with a warrior's horse. Musicians… — Catharine Arnold
All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities. — Thomas Sowell
It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the… — Christopher Lasch
The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them… — Georges Cuvier
Among the droves of men with political ambitions in the United States, I found very few with that virile candor, that manly independence of thought,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible. — Paul Klee
In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you'd go to some kind of religious training and or summer… — Michael Tilson Thomas
Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be… — W G Sebald
Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal health and security,… — Ross Garnaut
Earlier times goes in waiting for her and now it goes in memories I had with her. — Nishan Panwar

Who Wrote These Earlier Times Quotes

19 authors contributed a total of 19 Earlier Times Quotes as follows: