Early Middle Ages Quotes

#1. Everyone has this notion of the Middle Ages - certainly the early Middle Ages - as being this very superstitious era. I think that all eras are superstitious. We all have our magical thinking.

Nicola Griffith

#2. In the early Middle Ages the dominant form of political organization in Western Europe was the Germanic kingdom, and the German kingdom was in some ways the complete antithesis of the modern state. (p. 13)

Joseph Reese Strayer

#3. Rioting has always been a London tradition. It has been since the early Middle Ages. There's hardly a spate of years that goes by without violent rioting of one kind or another. They happen so frequently that they are almost part of London's texture.

Peter Ackroyd

#4. If the feudal knight was the clearest embodiment of society in the early Middle Ages, and the "bourgeois" under Capitalism, the educated person will represent society in the post-capitalist society in which knowledge has become the central resource.

Peter Drucker

#5. Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an illicit contentment, what with the slave systems all over the world, in England especially, the peasants and the master, etc. People were incredibly content.

David Bowie

#6. As the president of Kosovo, I am more concerned about the current situation with the employment standing at around 70 % of the population, which is young, with great potential, speaking many foreign languages and having wide expertise.

Ibrahim Rugova

#7. Let us remind ourselves again that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution should be referred to as the Statute of Liberty.

Jeff Cooper

#8. That all depends on what "is" is.

William J. Clinton

#9. Don't even ask me why. I do not know, I have no answer to this insane behaviour.

Marina Abramovic

#10. A revolution was inevitably coming; the earth was destined to be reclaimed, renewed and revived.

Shizette Parker

#11. At the end of the Middle Ages, slavery was almost unknown in Christian Europe. During the early modern period, the rise of European capitalism went hand in hand with the rise of the Atlantic slave trade.

Yuval Noah Harari

#12. The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.

Moss Hart

#13. You'd be sick if you saw my adidas collection ... you would be physically sick if you saw it. I'm not gonna say where it is.

Ian Brown

#14. I do believe that we are to love our enemies and do good to those who persecute you. I believe that there is power and strength in that.

Michael Moore

#15. Throughout the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, Latin was the language of learning and international communication. But in the early modern period, it was gradually displaced by French. By the eighteenth century, all the world - or at least all of Europe - aspired to be Parisian.

Michael Dirda

#16. It's not like it's perfect at all. But it's there. The love, it's there. The respect. The day to day has to bring you ease and comfort and safety. The waking up in the morning and going to bed at night, and everything in between has to bring you that. Or else what is the point?

Daphne Zuniga

#17. To know. Not to know about.

Ted Dekker