Our Time Quotes
787 Our Time quotes by 635 unique authors
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We stand on no high moral plateau in our time. We are, in fact, plumbing depths of depravity unknown to our ancestors--and whatever may have…
— Alan Keyes
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In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and…
— George Orwell
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The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political skills to thwart…
— Joseph J. Romm
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The highest and best use of our time that really matters over the next decade will be working to elect clean-energy candidates, especially in swing…
— Eban Goodstein
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All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order…
— Otto Dix
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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean…
— Lucy Stone
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The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill our minds. If…
— E F Schumacher
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I think a lot of the more successful artists of our time basically have barracudas for managers
— Robben Ford
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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
— Thomas More
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Led Zeppelin is the greatest. Robert Plant is one of the most original vocalists of our time. As a rock band they deserve the kind…
— Freddie Mercury
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We usually do not look into what is really there in front of us. We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts, and…
— Henepola Gunaratana
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Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in simplicity,…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Material objectives consume too much of our attention. The struggle for what we need or for more than we need exhausts our time and energy.…
— Marion D. Hanks
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In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities as a man.…
— C. Wright Mills
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Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on…
— Leo Tolstoy
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For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation’s great cause … There is no middle…
— Richard Perle
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A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be…
— Michael Pollan
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It is not the nature of man, as I see it, ever to be quite satisfied with what he has in life.... Contentment tends to…
— Frances Perkins
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We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do…
— William J. Brennan
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Nearly every moment of every day we have the opportunity to give something to someone else—our time, our love, our resources. I have always found…
— S. Truett Cathy
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Companies need to have a lot more flexibility with their people... . If somebody wants to golf around the world for two months, okay, well,…
— Richard Branson
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A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists have used the…
— Fritjof Capra
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The layman always means, when he says reality that he is speaking of something self-evidently known; whereas to me it seems the most important and…
— Wolfgang Pauli
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Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.
— Diane Ravitch
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