Three Centuries Quotes

29 quotes by 29 authors

• We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries. — John Berger
• Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his… — Calvin Coolidge
• This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these last three centuries… — Adolf Hitler
• There are some men who are counted great because they represent the actuality of their own age, and mirror it as it is. Such an… — Thomas Huxley
• As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the… — Arthur Koestler
• I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me… — Walt Whitman
• No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with… — Adrienne Rich
• Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the… — Edward Abbey
• The decline of witch-belief was . . . entirely the product of religious skepticism. . . . The Catholic Church did not reform itself on… — S. T. Joshi
• Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing… — Julian Schwinger
• Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in… — Simone Weil
• Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above… — John Nelson Darby
• The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes have been frustrated… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• If Jesus remained dead, how can you explain the reality of the Christian church and its phenomenal growth in the first three centuries of the… — Henry F. Schaefer, III
• I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence. — Benjamin Franklin
• It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices… — Herman Melville
• Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries.… — John Harvey Kellogg
• The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of… — Lewis Mumford
• Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant,' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing… — Eric Alterman
• All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries… — Peter Warlock

Who Wrote These Three Centuries Quotes

29 authors contributed a total of 29 Three Centuries Quotes, led by these top contributors:

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• 1 Three Centuries Quote by Anton Chekhov
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• 1 Three Centuries Quote by Walt Whitman
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• 1 Three Centuries Quote by Edward Abbey
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• 1 Three Centuries Quote by Julian Schwinger
• 1 Three Centuries Quote by Simone Weil
• 1 Three Centuries Quote by John Nelson Darby
• 1 Three Centuries Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.
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