Always, our eyes look
Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age. Esther Meynell
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Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age. Esther Meynell
Ours is a golden age of minorities. At no time in the past have dissident minorities felt so much at home and had so much room to throw their weight around. They speak and act as if they were the people, and what they abominate most is the dissent of the majority. Eric Hoffer
I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of the fireside, where there is no contention or cabal, think we are in a golden age of existance. Elizabeth Montagu
The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I grew up on the golden age of children’s TV. Edward Norton
Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us. Edward Bellamy
The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for the sake of it prophets have died and been slain; without it the people will not live and cannot die. Fyodor Dostoevsky
The golden age, when rambunctious spirits were regarded as the source of evil. Friedrich Nietzsche
The 1990’s will be a determining period of time for another cycle. If humanity during this time chooses to throw away a lot of the mirages and illusions it’s fooled itself with, we will enter a very bright and golden age. It won’t happen in one day. Frederick Lenz
We’ve been taught that the renaissance was one of the great golden ages of civilisation. The renaissance was not a golden age, it was the end of a golden age. Douglas Rushkoff