“The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in which human society dared to think of the welfare of the whole human race as a practical objective.” ThinkingHumansWholeAgePoliticalRaceGenerationsCenturyConflictPracticalsInventionObjectivesErasRememberedWelfareHuman RaceTwentieth CenturyFuture GenerationHuman Society Author:Arnold J. Toynbee
“I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back. And this one fact seemed to point to other facts and others still: Love frays and humans fail, time passes, eras end.” HumansStillsEndsFactsFatherFailingQuietStormErasComing BackTime PassesFray Book:The Age of Miracles: A Novel Source: The Age of Miracles: A Novel
“The transnational corporations and the money markets have declared the era of human-designed regulations over. Now the market must reign. Because few people in the business community are paid to think about phrases such as "Western civilization," they don't seem to realize that they are proposing the arbitrary denial of 2,500 years of human experience.” PeopleThinkingYearsHumansSeemsRealizingCommunityCivilizationPaidWesternErasDenialCorporationsPhrasesRegulationReignHuman ExperienceArbitraryWestern CivilizationTransnational Corporations Author:John Ralston Saul