Patent/history

Famous quotes containing the words patent and/or history:

    “This is the patent age of new inventions
    For killing bodies, and for saving souls,
    All propagated with the best intentions.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.”
    —Thomas Mann (1875–1955)