“Native annalists may look sadly back from the future on that period when we had the atomic bomb and the Russians didn't. Or when the Russians had aquired (through connivance and treachery of Westerns with warped minds) the atomic bomb - and yet still didn't have any stockpile of the weapons. That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.” MindLooksMayStillsMightPeriodsWeaponsRussiaDestroyedErasBombsNativeElbowsAtomic BombTreachery Author:Curtis LeMay
“It never seemed important to me that my photos be published. It's important that I take them. There were periods where I didn't have money, and I would imagine that someone would come to me and say: 'Here is money, you can go do your photography, but you must not show it.' I would have accepted right away. On the other hand, if someone had come to me saying: 'Here is money to do your photography, but after your death it must be destroyed,' I would have refused.” IfsImportantShowsHandsImaginePeriodsPhotographyPhotographerAcceptedDestroyedImagine That Author:Josef Koudelka
“I had a grungy period and looked like a tramp for a very long time - my mum really hated it! I destroyed her entire '70s wardrobe by putting studs into everything - I thought I was really cool. But it's good to experiment - I even had dreadlocks at one point.” LongPeriodsLong TimeExperimentsDestroyedHatedMumReally CoolWardrobeTrampsStudsDreadlocks Author:Clemence Poesy
“Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent. Contrary to the popular myth that industrialization destroyed "traditional" extended families, this high point occurred between 1850 and 1885, during the most intensive period of early industrialization. Many of these extended families, and most "producing" families of the time, depended on the labor of children; they were held together by dire necessity and sometimes by brute force.” ChildrenSometimesTogetherAmericaForceFiguresPeriodsHighestPercentLaborMythContraryTraditionalDestroyedHouseholdNormBrutesBrute ForceIndustrializationExtended FamilyHigh Points Book:The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap Source: The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
“The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.” CultureDangerPeriodsDestroyedAppliances Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“There is good reason to believe that we have already entered the Sixth Extinction, a period of destruction of species on a massive scale, comparable to the Fifth Extinction 65 million years ago, when three-quarters of the species on earth were destroyed, apparently by a huge asteroid.” YearsBelieveReasonEarthThreeMillionsHugePeriodsYears AgoDestructionSpeciesScalesDestroyedMassiveQuartersFifthExtinctionAsteroids Author:Noam Chomsky