Our Time Quotes
787 quotes by 635 authors
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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
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.
— Edward Abbey
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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
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Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time.
— Karl Marx
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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
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Cus was my father but he was more than a father. You can have a father and what does it mean?—it doesn't really mean anything.…
— Mike Tyson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.
— Mary Livermore
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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
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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
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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
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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
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'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
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If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.
— David Lloyd-Jones
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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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