Ours is a golden age of minorities. At no time in the past have dissident minorities felt so much at home and had so much room to throw their weight around. They speak and act as if they were "the people," and what they abominate most is the dissent of the majority. Eric Hoffer
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today. Phil Zimmermann
We have to be a forward-looking nation not a backward-looking nation, and I have to run the defence budget to deliver defence effect in the future, not to preserve regiments or shipyards just because they've been there for a long time in the past. And we move on. As a nation we move on. Philip Hammond
No matter how quiet and conformist a person's life seems, there's always a time in the past when they reached an impasse. A time when they went a little crazy. I guess people need that sort of stage in their lives. Haruki Murakami
I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive substances. Andrew Weil