Middle Ages Quotes

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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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just

Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.

I definitely have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome for superhero movies because it's very clear that's the era we're in. It's like Christianity in the Middle Ages.

Respect for woman, the much lauded chivalry of the Middle Ages, meant what I fear it still means to some men in our own day - respect for the elect few among whom they expect to consort.

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

I'm my age and I feel glorious.

Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that.

Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.

There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

This (Vietnam) was a land of rebellious barons. It was like Europe in the Middle Ages. But what were the Americans doing here? Columbus had not yet discovered their country.

Fear comes with middle age.

At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages.

That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.

I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.

Sometimes people have said that Islam, in its own calendar, is still only in the Middle Ages.

Almost every modern literary form existed in Hebrew two thousand years ago. And, yes, it existed even during the middle ages.

He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour.

The Jews were the money-lenders of the Middle Ages so there's a stereotype of the slightly or more than slightly dishonest business man and this stereotype covers and obscures all the facts.