Quotes About Era

We are seeing entertainment become politics and we're seeing people acting out in ways that are extremely violent and destabilizing. No rules apply. We're in an era of no rules now, it seems.

In spite of the variety of prophetic phenomenon in space (north, south, exile) and in time (premonarchial, monarchial, exilic, and postexilic), the prophets enjoyed the common bond with the past (the Mosaic revelation) and the future acts of God: the new era of God's coming, the transformation of all things, the judgment of the wicked, and the vindication of the righteous.

The modern era is the briefest but most turbulent of the three main eras of human history. Whereas the era of foragers lasted more than 200,000 years and the agrarian era about 10,000 years, the modern era has lasted just 250 years. Yet during this brief era change has been more rapid and more fundamental than ever before; indeed, populations have grown so fast that 20 percent of all humans may have lived during just these two and a half centuries.

America is closer to the year 2 than anywhere else on earth.

early twentieth century seemed to see what was coming. In 1873, Italian geologist Antonio Stoppani proposed that the growing influence of humans was causing the "Anthropozoic era," but this was largely ignored by scientists of his day. In 1877, physiologist Joseph LeConte described a similar concept, calling it the Psychozoic era. In the 1920s the French Jesuit priest Tielhard de Chardin spoke of

had thought, "can easily be an isolationist in an era when you can cross the Atlantic between lunch and dinner and when the atomic bomb can make mincemeat of an ideology. Chicago is as near Moscow as New York. Foreign policy is, or at least should be, as much a matter

He [Dean Rusk] was a rare person in that era... "Well, of course, in the South, most of us as we were growing up just took for granted that if there was to be trouble, if the nation was at war, that we would be in it. The tradition of the Civil War was still with us very strongly... We assumed there was a military duty to perform... We took that as a perfectly natural part of being an American." p315

That [Chester Bowles's] ideas seemed to be a little unfashionable did not bother him. He simply did not take the Russian threat that seriously; he thought the real dangers in the world were those of poverty and hunger. To many liberals he was a comforting throwback to the Roosevelt era; he still stood for things that they believed in but which had recently come under considerable attack.

somehow Acheson had been scarred during the McCarthy era; it was not so much that he had done anything wrong as the fact that he had been forced to defend himself. By that very defense, by all the publicity, he had become controversial. He had been in print too often, it was somehow indiscreet of Dean to be attacked by McCarthy.

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.

Nell'era di Reagan, ha dichiarato Mrs. Campbell, abbracciare la causa della pace e della giustizia è un'impresa futile, stancante e niente affatto remunerativa; pertanto si presta a essere abbracciata soltanto dalle madri.

When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.

When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.

Whatever else the Book of Mormon makes clear, it makes clear that every soul in every dispensation is precious to God, and therefore no age or era was-or is-left without its witness of Christ.

The era of resisting big government is never over.

There will be great presidents again but there will never be another Camelot.

I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.

History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.

SNSD means the coming of the era of girls, it's filled with hope. We wish to bring a generation of health and happiness.

The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcedence of duality is the key.

Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.