Quotes of: Twentyfirst Keyword

Everyone is political in his or her own way.

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Love, far from being blind, is the very emotion that allows us to see.

A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century

They (economists) must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that they know almost nothing about anything.

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Never ignore the feelings that don't seem to make sense.

The Knitting Diaries: The Twenty-First Wish\Coming Unraveled\Home to Summer Island

Too often, it is only love that makes us engaged enough, alert enough, alive enough to see

A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century

Political cynicism, disengagement, democratic decadence — call it what you will — is too often an excuse for physical and intellectual laziness.

Defending Politics: Why Democracy Matters in the Twenty-First Century

Some women have become far too proscriptive of other women's pleasures and private arrangements, and the definition of feminism has become ideologically overloaded.

Fire With Fire: New Female Power and How it Will Change the Twenty-First Century

Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.

A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century

At its strongest and wildest and most authentic, love is a demon. It is a religion, a high-risk adventure, an act of heroism. Love is ecstasy and injury, transcendence and danger, altruism and excess. In many ways, it is a divine madness.

A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-first Century

By letting go of what is known, you are free to encounter the living present, in all its perplexity and revelation. Just as silence is the possibility of sound, self-confessed ignorance is the possibility of encounter.

New Self, New World: Recovering Our Senses in the Twenty-First Century

The true test of liberty is the right to test it, the right to question it, the right to speak to my neighbors, to grab them by the shoulders and look into their eyes and ask, “Are we free?” I have thought that if we are free, the answer cannot h...

Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

God makes Himself felt in the heart of each person. He also respects the culture of all people...God is open to all people. He calls everyone. He moves everyone to seek Him and to discover Him through creation.

On Heaven and Earth: Pope Francis on Faith, Family, and the Church in the Twenty-First Century

Goods are traded, but services are consumed and produced in the same place. And you cannot export a haircut. But we are coming close to exporting a haircut, the appointment part. What kind of haircut do you want? Which barber do you want? All those t...

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century

Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we clip their wings like we domesticate the wild mallard. Children should become the role-models for us, their parents, for they are c...

Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

Between the poorest 50 percent (who own 5 percent of total wealth, or an average of 20,000 euros each in the example [Europe 2010]) and the richest 10 percent (who own 60 percent of total wealth, or an average of 1.2 million euros each) lies the midd...

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Learning about freedom, for . . . the very essence of human existence, knowledge, as the mind is an element that enables us to shift the winds of luck, reshape the forces of fate or destiny, and, ultimately, empower us to become free authors of our o...

Twenty-first Century Dynamics of Multiculturalism: Beyond Post-racial America

I look forward to seeing you in the “jungle” as our warriors meet and join the battle drum that calls for unity in the struggle for breaking the chains of modern slavery—like the butterflies flying the skies and the birds over the seas, all are...

Twenty-first Century Dynamics of Multiculturalism: Beyond Post-racial America

Perhaps more than never, in a highly globalized world, we must recognize that multiculturalism is not simply understanding ethnic/racial histories or the mere appreciation of cultural “difference,” but accepting that multiculturalism spreads acro...

Twenty-first Century Dynamics of Multiculturalism: Beyond Post-racial America

In contrast to what many people in Britain and the United States believe, the true figures on growth (as best one can judge from official national accounts data) show that Britain and the United States have not grown any more rapidly since 1980 than ...

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Our democratic societies rest on a meritocratic worldview, or at any rate a meritocratic hope, by which I mean a belief in a society in which inequality is based more on merit and effort than on kinship and rents. This belief and this hope play a ver...

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

When Muslim radicals and fundamentalists look at the West, they see only the openness that makes us, in their eyes, decadent and promiscuous. They see only the openness that has produced Britney Spears and Janet Jackson. They do not see, and do not w...

The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century