Centuries Quotes


We're the capital of the free world. We are spending billions of dollars and, more importantly, American blood to bring democracy and self-determination to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. For more than two centuries, D.C. residents have fought in 10 wars and paid billions of dollars in federal taxes. They have fought to bring democratic freedoms to people in distant lands. But here, they lack what is arguably the most fundamental right of all. - Tom Davis


We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice / however much we might desire it. - Hubert H. Humphrey


We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back. - Melina Mercouri


We must discover new frontiers... People have been standing for centuries before a worm-eaten door, making pinholes in it with increasing ease. The time has come to kick it down, for it is only on the other side that everything begins. - Raoul Vaneigem


We have to plant new ones for the next centuries. - Hubert Astier


We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now? - Abu Bakar Bashir


We have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females - and there is more in that than you might suppose. - C.S. Lewis


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