Ages Quote by Ethan A. Hitchcock

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.

— Anonymous

Some eras worship infancy; some, the aged. None as yet has adored middle age.

— Mason Cooley

“Only an obstinate prejudice about this period (which I will presently try to account for) could blind us to a certain change which comes…

— C.S. Lewis

Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition.

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

For us, when we think about the Middle Ages, it's sort of this rarefied, distant time that we have no connection to, especially if…

— Jeff Baena

Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it's the secular ideology or, you know…

— Wole Soyinka

We are living in modern times throughout the world and yet are dominated by medieval minds.

— Eqbal Ahmad

We forget how bawdy and brutal the Middle Ages were.

— Karen Maitland

“The Renaissance invented the Middle Ages in order to define itself; the Enlightenment perpetuated them in order to admire itself; and the Romantics revived…

— Brian Stock

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

— Gail Sheehy

That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.

— Barbara Tuchman

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.

— Lytton Strachey