Famous quotes containing the words century, masters, millennium, collection and/or jennings:
“When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.”
—Lao-Tzu (6th century B.C.)
“If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an incredibly off-hand manner.... Toys are thus the end point in that long chain in which all the conditions of despotic high-handedness are in play which enchain beings one to another, from one species to another—cruel divinities to their sacrificial victims, from masters to slaves, from adults to children, and from children to their objects.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.”
—Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)
“All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitants ... do not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“Captain Bligh: Mr. Christian, I give you your last chance to return to duty.
Fletcher Christian: I’ll take my chance against the law. You’ll take yours against the sea.”
—Talbot Jennings (1896–1985)