#centuries

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks. ↗

— Lord Acton

#centuries #down #fought #issue #later

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing. ↗

— Giacomo Leopardi

#art #because #centuries #disciplines #else

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#being #centuries #civilized #discovery #exist

In 2006, I entered the presidential palace in the main square of La Paz as the first indigenous president of Bolivia. Our government, under the slogan 'Bolivia Changes,' is committed to ending the colonialism, racism and exclusion that many of our people lived under for many centuries. ↗

— Evo Morales

#centuries #changes #colonialism #committed #ending

Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#away #build #cast #centuries #combined

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#change #course #drastically #meanings #minds

Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitler's passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed. ↗

— Robert Runcie

#been #centuries #christian #fervently #hatred

I would love to do a period piece - in the 18th or 17th century. To me, it would be such an incredible challenge because of the way people carried themselves. There are so many incredible stories within those centuries - just the language and the way they carried themselves and what they were going through. ↗

— Amy Smart

#carried #centuries #century #challenge #going

Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries. ↗

— Baldwin Spencer

#ago #around #blow #centuries #freedom

What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past. ↗

— Terri Windling

#centuries #dialogue #find #folklore #gives