Ours is an age of pedagogy. Anxious parents instruct their children more and more, at younger and younger ages, until they're reading books to babies in the womb. Alison Gopnik ageanxiousbaby Change image and share on social
Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little. D. H. Lawrence ageconsciousexcessively Change image and share on social
Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship. Spencer Bachus acceptavenuecitizenship Change image and share on social
Ours is decidedly not an age of Abrahams, Jacobs, or of youthful Elazars proud to be regarded as men of seventy. On the contrary, it is one in which the external signs of aging are avoided at all costs, youth is worshipped, and immortality is sought not in children but in Botox. Meir Soloveichik abrahamageaging share on social
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. D. H. Lawrence ageessentiallyrefuse Change image and share on social
Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population. John Agyekum Kufuor countrydespondencylarge Change image and share on social
Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness. Mahatma Gandhi ambitionbuycattle share on social
Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas. Eric Bentley agebrightgenuine Change image and share on social
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon. John Berger centuryclosedisappear Change image and share on social
Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. John Gunther countrydeliberatelyfound Change image and share on social