Quotes About Epoch

Tulbur?rile publice È™i comediile sunt arme profund revelatoare în orice epoc?. Ele dezv?luie climatul psihologic, gravele incertitudini... È™i dorinÈ›a arz?toare de mai bine, amestecat? cu teama c? nu se va realiza niciodat? nimic.

during and immediately after the Revolution, a period that Williston Walker (1894, p. 319) described as "the epoch of the lowest spiritual vitality that our churches have ever experienced." Or, to quote Leonard Woolsey Bacon (1897, p. 230): "The closing years of the eighteenth century show the lowest low-water mark of the lowest ebb-tide of spiritual life in the history of the American church.

Referring to Marx's thesis the the proletariat had no fatherland, he said that the epoch of national wars was over, and that the current struggle was an imperialist war.

Carlos was a character, a character fabricated by Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, fabricated by the secret services of the epoch, fabricated by the governments of the epoch, by the radical groups of the epoch, by the communications media.

All great cultural epochs are epochs of political decline: that which is great in the cultural sense has been unpolitical, even anti-political.…

I like the stories with the historical themes.

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.

An epoch which had gilded individual liberty so that if a man had money he was free in law and fact, and if he had not money he was free in law and not in fact. An era which had canonized hypocrisy, so that to seem to be respectable was to be.

The year 1844 marks an important epoch in the life of Mrs. Browning. It was in this year that, as a result of the publication of her two volumes of 'Poems,' she won her general and popular recognition as a poetess whose rank was with the foremost of living writers.

A few years ago, in an essay in Nature, the Nobel Prize–winning Dutch chemist Paul Crutzen coined a term. No longer, he wrote, should we think of ourselves as living in the Holocene. Instead, an epoch unlike any of those which preceded it had begun. This new age was defined by one creature—man—who had become so dominant that he was capable of altering the planet on a geological scale. Crutzen dubbed this age the "Anthropocene.

The most obvious symptoms of an epoch-making system are the misunderstandings and the awkward conduct of its adversaries.

But I will now go further, and confess to you that men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

a fresh young nature to which every variety in experience is an epoch.

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.

En l'absence de grands conflits armés, l'incarcération de masse constitue le programme social le plus assidûment appliqué par les gouvernements de notre époque.

As the years accumulate, we form an increasingly somber image of the future. Is this only to console ourselves for being excluded from it? Yes in appearance, no in fact, for the future has always been hideous, man being able to remedy his evils only by aggravating them, so that in each epoch existence, is much more tolerable before the solution is found to the difficulties of the moment.

Ai fost stirv cu stirvurile lumii? atunci iti meriti primavara altor vazduhuri. Cu istoria trebuie sa lupti ?i cu trecutul sa te incrincenezi intocmai ca cu prezentul. Cine cauta o epoca din timiditate sau eruditie e domol si las. Intreaga istorie universala s-o consideri cimp de desfasurare a vitejiei tale. Si daca n-ai imboldul razboitor, transforma-o atunci in vis, ca pretextul irealitatii sa-ti scuze siestele instinctelor.

Our epoch will be marked by the romanticism of the stateless. Already apparent is the image of a universe in which no one will have droit de cité. Inside every citizen nowadays lies a future alien.

They were a bit shaken, and sometimes a little dispirited. But at least they never lived to know that everything they'd believed in was just so much junk. They lived at the end of an epoch, when everything was dissolving into a sort of ghastly flux, and they didn't know it. They thought it was eternity. You couldn't blame them. That was what it felt like.

They lived at the end of an epoch, when everything was dissolving into a sort of ghastly flux, and they didn't know it. They thought it was eternity. You couldn't blame them. That was what it felt like.

Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.

I came into the world at the right time.