“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