“There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.” PeopleBelieveStillsCountryLiteratureNumbersEconomicCapitalismSocialismAlternativesErasMarxismEconomic SystemsCapitalism And Socialism Author:Herbert Read
“Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all.” TryingBelieveStillsCountryIraqMindsetStuckDevelopingErasSaddam Author:Brent Scowcroft
“Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life.” StillsSoulHardWisdomCoursesCausesWisePrideHolyEverydayToleranceErasRemarkableCashCurrencySmoothEveryday LifeCivility Book:Before the Sabbath Source: Before the Sabbath
“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
“Never console yourself into believing that the terror has passed, for it looms as large and evil today as it did in the despicable era of Bedlam. But I must relate the horrors as I recall them, in the hope that some force for mankind might be moved to relieve forever the unfortunate creatures who are still imprisoned in the back wards of decaying institutions.” BelieveStillsMightTodayEvilForceForeverMankindHorrorCreaturesInstitutionsMovedTerrorErasRelateRecallsUnfortunateConsoleDespicable Author:Frances Farmer
“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
“One more item for the delusional Miss Grundys still obtusely citing Reagan as their model of “niceness”: As governor of California, Reagan gave student protesters at Berkeley the finger. Remember that next time you ask yourself: “What would Reagan do?” People who are afraid of ideas whitewash Reagan like they whitewash Jesus. Sorry to break it to you, but the Reagan era did not consist of eight years of Reagan joking about his naps.” PeopleYearsStillsIdeasRememberNextAsksJesusBreakMissingStudentsModelsFingersSorryEightErasCaliforniaGovernorsNext TimeItemsNapsDelusionalCitingBerkeleyNiceness Author:Ann Coulter