“I'm a feminist, a 21st-century feminist - which means choice and freedom. One has the right to be both glamorous and ethically structured.” MeanChoicesCenturyFeminist21st CenturyGlamorous Author:Arielle Dombasle
“I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I have to like that trend or go along with it.” MeanDoeStoriesFormLostBornNovelCenturyFashionPaintingTrendsRhyme Author:Pat Conroy
“In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had before. You took the fact that the monarch was head of the Church of England to mean that the British monarchy was itself a religious or moral institution and the monarchy became a symbol of national public morality.” MeanFactsGivenChurchReligiousMoralCenturyPositionMoralityEnglandInstitutionsBritishSymbols20th CenturyMonarchyMonarchsChurch Of EnglandBritish Monarchy Author:David Starkey
“It's an irony that growing inequality could mean more money for philanthropy. In the US, quite a few of the ultra-rich have taken to heart the 19th century industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's comment that it's a disgrace to die wealthy.” HeartMeanDiesRichTakenGrowingCenturyInequalityIronyWealthyCommentMore MoneyPhilanthropyDisgrace19th CenturyAndrewPhilanthropistUltrasCarnegie Author:Geoff Mulgan
“Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for the robber barons. It is posed abstractly as the freedom of the individual from government control a Jeffersonian ideal at the roots of our Bill of Rights, to be sure. But what it meant in politics a century later, and still means today, is the freedom to accumulate wealth without social or democratic responsibilities and license to buy the political system right out from everyone else.” MeanStillsStoriesGovernmentAgeTodayPoliticalFatherIndividualSocialWealthResponsibilityRightsCenturyIdealsRootsBillsDemocraticSubstanceFoundingLicensePolitical SystemsBill Of RightsRobbersGildedGilded AgeRobber Baron Author:Bill Moyers
“Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived in the eighteenth century their sole object would have been to write correctly, to conform to the manner of the period. In practice, their conforming individualism means an imitation, studiously concealed, of the eccentricities of poems which really are individual.” IfsKnowsWritingMeanHas BeensNamesIndividualPracticeCenturyStyleObjectsPeriodsPursueIndividualismSoleImitationConformConcealedEccentricityPseudoIndividual Style Author:Laura Riding
“If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century, and therefore the century of the state.” IfsMayMeanStatesIndividualCenturyLiberalismCollectivesIndividualism19th Century Author:Benito Mussolini
“As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means to leisure, finally began to be of primary concern. But, in the meantime, any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared.” MenWellsMeanNationsCenturySeriousTasteCapacityConcernPropertyWesternNotionFavorsPursuitPrimariesLeisureProsperousSerious Life Author:Allan Bloom