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The last election just laid the foundation of the next 500 years of Dark Ages.

In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.

We all have souls of different ages

There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.

There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.

Let's do it right. This is for the ages.

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.

We are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.

The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.

Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

In the Middle Ages, everything bad was the work of the devil, everything good, the work of God. Today, the French see everything in reverse and blame the Germans for it.

If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.

You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.

Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!

The test of civilization is the estimate of woman.

We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages, only then will Israel be calm for the next 40 years.

Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you're gonna have. It's pathetic. It really is pathetic. It's sad. We're living in the Dark Ages over there.

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.

There is a time for everything and you do different things at different ages.

Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.

Fashion doesn't look good only on models, it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.

The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the plague of our century and we'll not survive this one.

Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.

Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms

The critical question is how a religious tradition is interpreted. Is it interpreted in ways that are pro-human rights or in ways that are a throwback to the Dark Ages?

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages.

Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.

The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

But we're all so different, we're different ages; we're not vying for the same roles. There's no competition, there's really kind of a sisterhood, on and off the set, you know?

When the planes still swoop down and aerial spray a field in order to kill a predator insect with pesticides, we are in the Dark Ages of commerce.

In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.

Chemotherapy is just medieval. It's such a blunt instrument. We're going to look back on it like we do the dark ages.

All the world’s Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.

As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.

The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.

Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants.

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.

There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.