Our Age Quotes
199 quotes by 158 authors
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I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.
— Paul Auster
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
— Gary Bauer
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We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
— Martha Beck
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I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution,…
— Bono
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Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.
— James Buchan
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War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is…
— Charles Sumner
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We must be authors of the history of our age.
— Madeleine Albright
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Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and may…
— Joan Didion
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Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to…
— Albert Schweitzer
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What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been set forward by…
— Robert Hooke
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The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the…
— Bertrand Russell
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There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that mankind should be…
— Bertrand Russell
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The supposed astronomical proofs of the theory [of relativity], as cited and claimed by Einstein, do not exist. He is a confusionist. The Einstein theory…
— Charles Lane Poor
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I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is bad. Countless others…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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There was a time in our past when one could walk down any street and be surrounded by harmonious buildings. Such a street wasn't perfect,…
— Jonathan Hale
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Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our…
— Mary Midgley
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We're all agreed that climate change is one of the greatest and most daunting challenges of our age. We have a moral imperative to act…
— David Cameron
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Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching a movie, a…
— Maria von Trapp
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Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?
— Charles Sumner
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