“I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.” IfsBelieveGodChristianNextI BelieveCausesReligiousHalfCenturyCivilizationHorrorBibleDetermineBrutalPaganismUs HistoryEncyclopediaGod And Country Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“Progress has brought us both unbounded opportunities and unbridled difficulties. Thus, the measure of our civilization will not be that we have done much, but what we have done with that much. I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism. The thought of modern industry in the hands of Christian charity is a dream worth dreaming. The thought of industry in the hands of paganism is a nightmare beyond imagining. The choice between the two is upon us.” IfsBelieveTwoDoneDreamHandsChristianReligionChoicesNextOpportunityI BelieveCausesHalfProgressModernCenturyIndustryCivilizationHorrorDifficultyCharityDetermineVotingNightmareBrutalPaganism Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“Typical horror movies of the 1930s were often given a period setting in what looked like a kind of stylized 19th century... the sense of 'elsewhen', of distance, lent to many of these movies by their settings. They exist, as it were, in a 19th century of the mind.” MindKindFilmGivenCenturyPeriodsHorrorHollywoodDistanceSettingSettingsTypical19th Century1930s Author:Andrew Tudor
“Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, radical conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes.” WorldYearsFirstsAgePoliticsEmotionClassStruggleEconomyCenturyHorrorConflictMassTradeUnionsGreedEnvyPassingPassingsRadicalLiberalismFiftyMutualOur World20th CenturyCavesDisputesHostilityRespectableClass StruggleTrade UnionsPseudonymsLack Of Control Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand, there have started into life industrial and scientific forces which no epoch of former human history had ever suspected. On the other hand, there exist symptoms of decay, far surpassing the horrors recorded of the latter times of the Roman empire. In our days everything seems pregnant with its contrary.” HumansFactsHandsSeemsForcePartyCenturyHorrorDareDenyContraryFormerCharacteristicsLatterEmpiresDecayPregnantSymptomsHuman HistoryNineteenth CenturyRoman EmpireEpochSurpassing Book:Karl Marx: Selected Writings Source: Karl Marx: Selected Writings
“Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Elizabeth I, independent, strong, represents the age of Shakespeare's heroines, a woman's heyday, Victoria represents another image of womanhood, predominant in the nineteenth century: a woman who, although queen in her own right, leaned on her husband, looked up to him, and went into perpetual mourning after his death. The feminist movement filled her with shocked horror and outrage.” IfsAgeStrongCenturyFashionMovementHorrorHusbandIndependentFilledFeministQueensMourningPerpetualWomanhoodShockedOutrageNineteenth CenturyHeroinesMonarchsVictoriaPersonificationFeminist MovementHeyday Author:Eva Figes
“It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people to their own doom. What is even more amazing is that, after a century that saw the likes of Hitler, Lenin and Mao, we still see no need to distrust charisma as a basis for choosing leaders, either in politics or in numerous organizations and movements.” PeopleNeedsStillsResultsLeaderMillionsSawsCenturyMovementHorrorOrganizationBasesLikes20th CenturyDistrustDoomMisleadCharismaCharismaticMaoQuacks Book:Controversial Essays Source: Controversial Essays
“I'd like to be remembered not only for my body of work but also for specific novels. Ideally, I want to be remembered in the same way as Stephen King, who defined and exemplified excellence in the horror genre in the late 20th and early 21st century.” WayWantBodyNovelCenturyKingsHorrorLateExcellenceDefinedGenreRemembered21st CenturyHorror Genre Author:Nicholas Sparks
“Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its unspeakable horrors. This collective suffering has brought upon a readiness in many human beings for the evolutionary leap that is spiritual awakening.” HumansSelfWholeSpiritualSufferingHumanityHuman BeingsGoneCenturyHorrorAwakeningCollectivesLeap20th CenturySpiritual AwakeningReadinessUnspeakableUnimaginableCulminationSelf InflictedAlready Gone Author:Eckhart Tolle
“We will build our defenses beyond challenge, lest weakness invite challenge. We will confront weapons of mass destruction, so that a new century is spared new horrors.” ChallengesCenturyHorrorWeaponsMassWeaknessDestructionDefenseInvitesWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass Destruction Author:George W. Bush