Our Time Quotes - Page 5

• We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.

  Ed Miliband

  Office, Way, Spirit

  "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

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• To sow, that others may reap; to work and plant for those that are to occupy the earth when we are dead; to project our influences far into the future, and live beyond our time; to rule as the Kings of Thought, over men who are yet unborn; to bless with the glorious gifts of Truth and Light and Liberty those who will neither know the name of the giver, nor care in what grave his unregarded ashes repose, is the true office of a Mason and the proudest destiny of a man.

  Albert Pike

  Kings, Destiny, Men

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the great weaknesses of the progressive, as distinct from the religious, mind, is that it has no awareness of truth as such; only of truth in terms of enlightened expediency. The contrast is well exemplified in two exact contemporaries - Simone Weil and Simone de Beauvoir; both highly intelligent and earnestly disposed. In all the fearful moral dilemmas of our time, Simone Weil never once went astray, whereas Simone de Beauvoir, with I am sure the best of intentions, has found herself aligned with apologists for some of the most monstrous barbarities and falsehoods of history.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Religious, Intelligent, Two

  "The World of George Orwell" edited by Miriam Gross, (p. 167), 1972.

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• In recent years it has become impossible to talk about man's relation to nature without referring to "ecology"...such leading scientists in this area as Rachel Carson, Barry Commoner, Eugene Odum, Paul Ehrlich and others, have become our new delphic voices...so influential has their branch of science become that our time might well be called the "Age of Ecology".

  Rachel Carson

  Men, Voice, Years

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• SETI is probably the most important quest of our time , and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Government, Important, Quests

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• The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than widening the gap between rich and poor. To lift up poor countries, and poor people in rich countries, from poverty, to give them a chance of a decent life, technology is not enough. Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

  Freeman Dyson

  Country, Technology, Rich Countries

  "Progress In Religion". Freeman Dyson's Acceptance Speech for the Templeton Prize at the Washington National Cathedral, www.edge.org. May 16, 2000.

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• Our time has been distinguished, more than by anything else, by a mastery, a control, of the external world, and by an almost total forgetfulness of the internal world. If one estimates human evolution from the point of view of knowledge of the external world, then we are in many respects progressing. If our estimate is from the point of view of the internal world, and of oneness of internal and external, then the judgment must be very different.

  R. D. Laing

  Views, Oneness, Progress

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• I have always considered The Merry Wives one of the worst plays, if not altogether the worst, that Shakespeare has left us. The wit for the most part is dreary or foolish; the tone is coarse and farcical; and the characters want the fine distinctive touches he so well knew how to give. If some luckless wight had written such a comedy in our time, I should like to see what the critics would say to it?

  George Henry Lewes

  Character, Play, Giving

  John Forster, George Henry Lewes (1896). “Dramatic Essays”

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• Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.

  Tyler Cowen

  Art, Believe, Important

  Tyler Cowen (2008). “Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Den tist”, p.41, Penguin

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• The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.

  Edwin H Friedman

  People, Understanding, Unmotivated

  Edwin H. Friedman (2007). “A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix”, p.9, Church Publishing, Inc.

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• To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.

  L. Lionel Kendrick

  Struggle, Perspective, Principles

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• I do not know what meaning classical studies could have for our time if they were not untimely that is to say, acting counter to our time and thereby acting on our time and, let us hope, for the benefit of a time to come.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Acting, Benefits, Study

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.98, Cambridge University Press

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• Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time.

  William Carlos Williams

  Divorce

  1946 Paterson, bk.1,'The Delineaments of the Giants', 2.

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• Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Ease, Our Love, Stealing

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• A society, in the process of moving forward, often appears to be tearing itself apart. Certainly, an age of rapid change, such as ours, produces many paradoxes. But perhaps the most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

  Earl Warren

  Moving, Age, Paradox

  "Saturday Review" Magazine, (p. 16), October 23, 1971.

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• For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like catastrophe the United States has been twice saved in our time by the arguments formulated by Turgot.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Country, United States, Transition

  ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1910). “SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON”

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• What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

  Doris Lessing

  Fiction, Realizing, Social

  "Doris Lessing: Hot Dawns". Interview with Harvey Blume, Boston Book Review, February 1998.

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• The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Blow, Tasks, Institutions

  "The Drama of Ibsen and Strindberg". Book by Frank Laurence Lucas (p. 34), 1962.

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• Foucault is the Cagliostro of our time.

  Camille Paglia

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Camille Paglia, "Arion", Third Series, Volume 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• The realization that American power could and should be used for the defense of pluralism and as a punishment for fascism came to me in Sarajevo a year or two later... That was an early quarrel between me and many of my Nation colleagues, and it was also the first time I found myself in the same trench as people like Paul Wolfowitz and Jeane Kirkpatrick: a shock I had to learn to get over. The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Real, Party, Thinking

  Interview with Jamie Glazov, historynewsnetwork.org. December 23, 2003.

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• Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Responsibility, Genius, Want

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The perpetrators of these deeds are generally motivated by political grievance, social injustice, and the deeply felt desire to see how they look on TV.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Political, Desire, Deeds

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.152, Vintage

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• The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.

  Virginia Woolf

  Letters

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3541, Delphi Classics

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• There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a desire for thrills. But the malady of our time is of those who become spies out of idealism.

  Max Lerner

  Ambition, Vanity, Spy

  Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”

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• Alternative Lifestyles, the emotional fly-drive packages of our times, come equipped with a set of clothes, a choice of authors, a limited menu of sports and a discount coupon book of clichés.

  Ellen Goodman

  Sports, Book, Emotional

  Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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