Our Time Quotes
787 quotes by 635 authors
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One day we'll have a system that includes the rights of the people to make money and keep it, rather than a system where you…
— Stuart Wilde
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Our task is tough, and our time is limited. Party organizations and governments at all levels must give priority to emission reduction and bring the…
— Hu Jintao
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We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.
— Herman Melville
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Anyone who claims that the debate is over and the conclusions are firm has a fundamentally unscientific approach to one of the most momentous issues…
— Unknown Author
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You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the…
— Al Gore
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Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of the great evils…
— Howard Zinn
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The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
— Earl Warren
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The corporation is the dominant and dominating institution of our time. Governments identify growth and development with commercial corporations and shower them with subsidies, tax…
— Eric Kierans
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I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out. All one can…
— Etty Hillesum
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The frenetic pace of modern life can lead to an obscuring or even a loss of what is truly human... Perhaps more than in other…
— Pope John Paul II
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I believe that in a certain way this is proof of the truth of Christianity: Heart and reason encounter one another, beauty and truth converge,…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The Pro-Life cause is the preeminent cause of our time, and this struggle between the gospel of life and the culture of death will determine…
— Peter Garrett
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There is no portion of our time that is our time, and the rest God's; there is no portion of money that is our money,…
— Adolphe Monod
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What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it.…
— Carl Jung
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Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make…
— Dalai Lama
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Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the…
— Octavio Paz
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Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves-our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our…
— William E. Simon
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We in this country, in this generation, areby destiny rather than choicethe watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may…
— John F. Kennedy
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It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
— Jean Rostand
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