“Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were despised in the late twentieth century. Many of the persons who held such opinions were, of course, guilty of the most nefarious conduct themselves, and yet saw no paradox in holding such views because they were not hypocrites themselves-they took no moral stances and lived by none.” PersonsPoliticalCoursesViewsMoralOpinionSawsCenturyYouthLateGuiltyHypocrisyParadoxDevotedDiscourseTwentieth CenturyHypocriteDespisedStancePolitical Discourse Author:Neal Stephenson
“It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the 20th century has been the forecast.” Has BeensPlayArtistOpinionCenturyActivity21st Century20th CenturyForecasts Author:Brian Sutton-Smith
“Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. It may then fairly be inferred, that, till society be differently constituted, much cannot be expected from education.” MenMayHas BeensCharacterAgeGivenOpinionCenturyDegreesMen And WomenExpectedEducatedMannersStreamsPopular OpinionVindication Book:Vindication of the Rights of Women Source: Vindication of the Rights of Women
“Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying.” PeopleMenEndsSportsBornOpinionCenturyHuman NatureHundredFellowsBoundsEnvyCompetitorsRivalsPillars Author:Aristotle
“I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.” EnoughChristianLastsBornHalfOpinionCenturyErasDisadvantagesNineteenth Century Author:Barbara Mertz
“It is my opinion that the Christian conception of God current in these middle years of the twentieth century is so decadent as to be utterly beneath the dignity of the Most High God and actually to constitute for professed believers something amounting to a moral calamity.” YearsChristianMoralOpinionMiddleCenturyDignityCurrentsBelieverConceptionTwentieth CenturyCalamity Book:The Knowledge of the Holy Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“I think Twitter is the literature of the 21st century. I think it's an incredible art because when you make a book, you don't know who reads it. But every line, I write a million people, they read it, and then they insult me, they love me, they discuss, they give an opinion instantly, immediately. They are completely in communication, immediately. That is a real art.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingWritingArtBookRealLiteratureLinesOpinionMillionsCenturyCommunicationArt IsIncrediblesInsult21st Century Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky