(347 quotes found)
“In answer to your inquiry, I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.”
William Booth
“A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.''”
Petra Kelly
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
“Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.”
Rush Limbaugh
“The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century”
William Lyon Phelps
“Our history sings of centuries Such varying songs it sings! It starts with winds, slow moving sails, It ends with skies and wings”
Catherine Cate Coblentz
“It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct.”
Michio Kaku
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world”
Charles Darwin