(7 quotes found)
“Constant revolutionizing of production distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.”
Karl Marx
“There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.”
Liberty Hyde Bailey
“You know about transmigration of souls; do you know about transposition of epochs--and bodies?”
Mark Twain
“I want to commend it as an epoch-making move for the BOJ that would bring transparency to its policy.”
Kozo Yamamoto
“Why did we do all of it? To launch a new epoch, one without divisions. Without one shot, our generation was able to do it.”
Lech Walesa
““The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us.””
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress”
Wendell Phillips