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1 " More powerful than the mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. "
― Victor Hugo
2 " An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government "
― Ron Paul , The Revolution: A Manifesto
3 " And if, as all philosophers on the subject have noted, art is a human activity that relies on the senses to reach the soul, did it not also stand to reason that dogs -- at least dogs of Mr. Bones' caliber -- would have it in them to feel a similar aesthetic impulse? Would they not, in other words, be able to appreciate art? As far as Willy knew, no one had ever thought of this before. Did that make him the first man in recorded history to believe such a thing was possible? No matter. It was an idea whose time had come. If dogs were beyond the pull of oil paintings and string quartets, who was to say they wouldn't respond to an art based on the sense of smell? Why not an olfactory art? Why not an art for dogs that dealt with the world as dogs knew it? "
― Paul Auster , Timbuktu
4 " The power of an idea whose time has come is really the power of Spirit at work. Equality for all is how God is, for instance, and we seek to be like God. When enough of us, along with one or two at visionary consciousness, begin to contemplate these in-Spirit ideas, they can't be stopped. "
― Wayne W. Dyer , Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling
5 " Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come. "
― Barbara W. Tuchman , The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
6 " He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange. "
― Bruce Robinson , The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman
7 " No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. "
8 " Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sasha, and the zamani. The recently departed whose time on earth overlapped with people still here are the sasha, the living-dead. They are not wholly dead, for they still live in the memories of the living, who can call them to mind, create their likeness in art, and bring them to life in anecdote. When the last person to know an ancestor dies, that ancestor leaves the sasha for the zamani, the dead. As generalised ancestors, the zamani are not forgotten but revered. Many … can be recalled by name. But they are not the living-dead. There is a difference. "
― James W. Loewen , Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
9 " All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. "
10 " There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come. "
