Jose Rizal Quotes

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

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.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

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

Nearly all literature, in one sense, is made up of guide-books. Old ones tell us the ways our fathers went, through the thoroughfares and courts of old; but how few of those former places can their posterity trace, amid avenues of modern erections; to how few is the old guide-book now a clew! Every age makes its own guide-books, and the old ones are used for waste paper.

Blame the guy who doesn't speak Engish.

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.

The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.

Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become today's patients.

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

All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire

I feel like as I've gotten older I've unfortunately come to the decision that a lot of people who seem normal and boring maybe are normal and boring.

Today, we don't talk about history. The past is two weeks ago, and the future is two weeks after.

The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.

The currents rage so deep upon us, this is the age of video violence.

Europe is war. Economic war. It is the increase of hostilities between the countries. Germans are denigrated as being cruel, the Greeks as fraudsters, the French as lazy. Ms. Merkel can't travel to any European country without being protected by hundreds of police. That is not brotherhood.

You're 25 and you're looking at adults of your parents' age and older saying, "I don't want to live that way," and this is how it happens. It evolves slowly and it's not the result of any movement. It's just young people look at the way their parents are living and if they don't like it they don't want to duplicate it.

When future historians look back on our way of curing inflation...they'll probably compare it to bloodletting in the Middle Ages.

But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.

Maybe my biggest aim is to bring a sense of that old mystery of rock 'n' roll into the new age of today's instantaneous and fast world.

What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today.