Our Time Quotes

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In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies… — Edward Abbey
The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition. — Edward Abbey
Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of… — Edward Abbey
Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time. — Karl Marx
The task that has fallen to us as Americans is to move the conscience of the world, to keep alive the hope and dream of… — Ronald Reagan
Cus was my father but he was more than a father. You can have a father and what does it mean?â€”it doesn't really mean anything.… — Mike Tyson
Peace comes from the absence of fear, from a consciousness of trust, from a deep, underlying faith in the absolute goodness and mercy, the final… — Ernest Holmes
Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They… — Mahatma Gandhi
Vaccination is a barbarous practice and one of the most fatal of all the delusions current in our time. Conscientious objectors to vaccination should stand… — Mahatma Gandhi
And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims… — Antonin Artaud
For no matter what we achieve, if we don't spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect, we cannot possibly… — James C. Collins
Perhaps the efforts of the true poets, founders, religions, literatures, all ages, have been, and ever will be, our time and times to come, essentially… — Walt Whitman
Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time. — Mary Livermore
Ever since the Christmas of 1953, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or… — John Irving
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts. — Theodore Wilhelm Engstrom
The rise of statism in our time is the natural result of the longing of godless, unchurched people for some kind of protection. When we… — Sam Shoemaker
A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and… — Kurt Vonnegut
'He's the most charming man. He's the Oscar Wilde of our time. I only had one moment with him in that film and it's a… — Russell Crowe
If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves. — David Lloyd-Jones
Global warming may be a 'crisis,' even 'the most pressing environmental problem of our time.' ... Indeed, it may ultimately affect nearly everyone on the… — John Roberts

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