1.
What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.
William Shakespeare
What a deplorable epoch in which fools direct the unenlightened.
2.
A new era will dawn in Africa, when the impoverished masses of a nation rise up to rescue their right to a decent life from the hands of the ruling oligarchies.
Che Guevara
A new age will emerge in Africa, when the financially disadvantaged multitudes of a nation take control to reclaim their entitlement to a quality life from the leadership of the powerful elites.
3.
The Exodus from Egypt occurs in every human being, in every era, in every year, and in every day.
Nachman of Breslov
The Departure from Egypt manifests itself in all individuals, at all times, in every epoch, and on a daily basis.
4.
A cool & diversified version of a mix tape. The BreakBeat Poets is a thorough and complete summation of Golden Era writers who continue to build the scene of literary and performance poetry.
Chance the Rapper
A fresh & varied compilation of tracks. The BreakBeat Poets is a comprehensive and exhaustive overview of Golden Era authors who keep building the milieu of literary and spoken word poetry.
5.
The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era.
Ghassan Kanafani
The Palestinian struggle should not be seen as exclusive to Palestinians, but rather a collective cause of the downtrodden and abused in our time.
6.
The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.
Guglielmo Marconi
The dawn of the wireless age will render armed conflict inconceivable, as it will make warfare absurd.
7.
Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new approach, a revolution really. Unlike the Industrial Revolution, the Biomimicry Revolution introduces an era based not on what we can extract from nature, but on what we can learn from her.
Janine Benyus
9.
ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.
Phyllis Schlafly
11.
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.
Curtis LeMay
12.
Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation.
Harry Seidler
13.
The young people are the most active and vital force in society. They are the most eager to learn and the least conservative in their thinking. This is especially so in the era of socialism.
Mao Zedong
14.
In an era of transparency, you can have innovation without branding, but you cannot have branding without innovation.
Martin Sorrell
15.
The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting.
Aslan Maskhadov
16.
When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.
Maggie Smith
17.
At the start of his second term, one wonders less about Obama's fitness than his willingness: Why doesn't he do more to build and maintain the relationships required to govern in era of polarization?
Ron Fournier
18.
Only by doing the best we can with the very best that an era offers, do we find the way to do better in the future.
Frank Drake
19.
The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.
Enzo Ferrari
20.
An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
Arthur Miller
21.
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
Vernor Vinge
22.
The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.
Dylan McDermott
23.
If this is how science operates, by silencing those who express opposing views rather than by debating with them, then science is dead and we are in a new era of the Inquisition.
Graham Hancock
24.
We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return...
Arthur C. Clarke
25.
I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it.
Yves Saint Laurent
26.
You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era - it should never leave you.
Leontyne Price
27.
The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era.
Abdullah Ocalan
28.
My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era.
John Oates
29.
I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan.
Sebastian Stan
30.
We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.
H. Rap Brown
31.
On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.
Harold Wilson
32.
The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.
Ludwig Feuerbach
33.
When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.
Anselm Kiefer
34.
The era of 'anything goes' is gone for ever.
Mwai Kibaki
35.
Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.
Martin Fry
36.
To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences.
Roy Wood
37.
Social Security is a plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of American demographics in mind.
Ginny Brown-Waite
38.
Because you know, we live in an era now where everything is pushed. We live in a push world where everything gets pushed to you. It's like, I don't have to wait for you to send it to me, I'll go get it off the Internet. So it was difficult to be back in that sort of situation. But it was cool.
Ja Rule
39.
Aviation seems almost a gift from heaven to those Western nations who were already the leaders of their era, strengthening their leadership, their confidence, their dominance over other peoples.
Charles Lindbergh
40.
Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.
Albert Camus
41.
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.
Susan Sontag
42.
We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)
Henri Rousseau
43.
Someday I will tell my grandchildren that I lived in the era when OK was abbreviated to K.
Demetri Martin
44.
In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.
Kofi Annan
45.
In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.
Dale Jamieson
46.
I only take vitamin B complex. Before World War II, I used to take ionized yeast, because in the pre-war era we never heard about vitamins.
John Gokongwei
47.
We are at the beginning of a new era of immunochemistry, namely the production of "antibody based" molecules.
Cesar Milstein
48.
In this new era of social media the rules of the road have changed significantly, yet the basic yearning for true connectivity and love have not.
Matthew Hussey
49.
People ask me what my favorite WWE era is. It's now, because I'm living it.
Chris Jericho
50.
We live in an era with no real sense of community or connection to nature.
John Zerzan