era quotes

Les temps primitifs sont lyriques, les temps antiques sont e  piques, les temps modernes sont dramatiques. The primitive era was lyrical, the classical era was epic and the modern era is dramatic.

-Victor Marie Hugo
  Cromwell, pre  face.

A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. A new era is upon us† We have had our last chance. If we do not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.

- Douglas MacArthur
  National radio broadcast on the surrender of  Japan, 2 Sep.

Stalin†that great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age† The occasion is not merely the passing away of a great figure but perhaps the ending of an historic era.

-Jawaharlal Nehru
   Tribute, Indian Parliament, 9 Mar.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!† The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

- Henry David Thoreau
  Walden, or Life in theWoods,'Reading'.