“I believe the world benefits from American leadership. I believe this next century should be an American century.” WorldShouldBelieveNextI BelieveCenturyBenefitsAmerican Leadership Author:Mitt Romney
“Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.” HeartArtSoulMightAgeLastsCultureEmotionChristianityAliveInfluenceMiddleCenturyColdHigherBenefitsDiedPracticalsDevotionAspirationMysticismWarmthBarrenIntellectualismIntoxicationDominatingFreezing Book:Lectures on Calvinism Source: Lectures on Calvinism
“ASEM should build a new Silk Road to actively boost exchanges between these two civilizations in the new century so that countries in Asia and Europe will build on their respective civilizations and respect, learn from, complement and benefit each other.” ShouldTwoCountryCenturyCivilizationBenefitsEuropeAsiaSilkBoostComplementSilk Road Author:Jiang Zemin
“The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.” WarWisdomPoliticsWealthHalfEconomyMankindCenturyBenefitsBuiltFixedLiberalismDividedImmenseAccumulation Book:The Economic Consequences of the Peace Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace
“It is too late in the century for women who have received the benefits of co-education in schools and colleges, and who bear theirfull share in the world's work, not to care who make the laws, who expound and who administer them.” WorldCareSchoolLawEducationShareCenturyCollegeBearsBenefitsLateToo LateSuffrageWoman Suffrage Author:Judith Ellen Foster
“Launching Collins in the U.S. fulfills the original vision of the 1989 union of Harper & Row and William Collins. Publishing has clarified the many benefits of working as a global company. I believe that a true 21st century publisher is a global publisher. Harper Collins is well on its way.” WayBelieveWellsI BelieveCompanyVisionCenturyBenefitsOriginalsUnionsPublishing21st CenturyPublishersLaunchingHarper Author:David D. Friedman
“Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have suffered at the hands of Europeans?... We and our civilization are burdened, really, with a great debt. We are not free to confer benefits on these men, or not, as we please; it is our duty. Anything we give them is not benevolence but atonement.” MenWorldGivingHandsCoursesCenturyColorDutyPleaseCivilizationBenefitsInjusticeDebtCrueltyBenevolenceAtonement Author:Albert Schweitzer
“It will be enough to recall in th is sense that almost all the Countries arose, centuries ago, through cruel conquests. With exception, men have been squandering servants th at at the moment of adjustment did not appear to be worthy of the benefits received.” MenHas BeensCountryEnoughMomentsCenturyBenefitsWorthyServantExceptionRecallsConquestAdjustmentSquandering Author:Chico Xavier
“Overwhelming the majority of European citizens are unhappy with the social deal they get, yes; and that is why they are so angry with their governments. Because they want more, much more! They couldn't care less that their benefits, salaries and other privileges, have been, for decades and centuries 'subsidized' by the plunder of other parts of the planet; that they are paid for by blood.” WantHas BeensGovernmentCareSocialDealsBloodCenturyPlanetsCitizensBenefitsPaidAngryMajorityPrivilegeDecadesUnhappyOverwhelmingSalaryPlunder Author:Andre Vltchek
“[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any benefits. And yet, he's thinking in terms of the long term, of centuries.” IfsThinkingYearsLooksLongMadeStillsTermViewsCenturyPositionBenefitsYears AgoChinaPoint Of ViewLong TermNonviolenceConcessionsLamaTibetDalaiForbearance Author:Pico Iyer
“It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift was made toward the cultivation of unbounded desire. We must appreciate this to realize that late modern consumption, consumption as we now know it, is not fundamentally about materialism or the consumption of physical goods. Affluence and consumer-oriented capitalism have moved us well beyond the undeniable efficiencies and benefits of refrigeration and indoor plumbing.” KnowsWellsMadeDesireRealizingModernCenturyBenefitsLateCapitalismAppreciateMovedConsumersMaterialismGoodsConsumptionEfficiencyConsumerismTwentieth CenturyNineteenth CenturyOverconsumptionCultivationAffluencePlumbingIndoor Plumbing Author:Rodney Clapp
“"The Constitution" has something called The Emoluments Clause. That's just a fancy, 18th century word for no foreign government payments. And Donald Trump is collecting foreign government payments and other benefits throughout his business.It is a direct violation of "The Constitution" and unless he divests, not just operations, he must divest from all business interests or he will be in violation of "The Constitution" from day one.” GovernmentInterestCenturyTrumpBenefitsDirectConstitutionOperationsFancyPaymentViolationCollectingClauses18th Century Author:Norman L. Eisen
“You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While on one level the crisis can be ascribed to wandering about in freezing rain without the benefit of adequate waterproofing, the deeper cause is more likely to be found in some emotional trauma. However, unlike the heroines of your favorite novels, your constitution has not been weakened by the privations of life in earlier, harsher centuries. No tuberculosis, no childhood polio, no unhygienic living conditions. You'll survive.' " pg. 303” SpiritSufferingFoundCausesImaginationLossLevelsNovelChildhoodConditionsCenturyEmotionalBenefitsLowsRainConstitutionCrisisDeeperTraumaWanderAppetiteSymptomsAdequateHeroinesWearinessYour FavoriteFreezingAilmentsPolioTuberculosisFaintingLiving ConditionsEmotional Trauma Author:Diane Setterfield
“A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and many so born failed to benefit by it. Some merited a better century, for all that is good does not always triumph. Fashions have their periods and even the greatest virtues, their styles. But the philosopher, being ageless, has one advantage: Should this not prove the right century, many to follow will.” ShouldPersonsDoeBornVirtueCenturyFashionStylePeriodsProveBenefitsAdvantagePhilosopherWorthyTriumphGreat PersonAgeless Author:Baltasar Gracian