21 Century Quotes

The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.

The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

Specifically, the part where in the early 19th century America reconstituted the U.S. Marine Corps to battle the Islamic Barbary Pirates, though I don't think that's what Obama meant.

I understand Jacqueline Kennedy has redone the White House in eighteenth-century style. Why, then, I'd fit in perfectly.

I hate it. I just do. That [artificial turf], local news, the IRS, and hair dryers are the four worst inventions of the century.

Sustainability is about profit...it is the opportunity of the century

The latest computer modeling I've seen indicates that at mid-century, there might be 150 million people classified as "environmental refugees."

In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill.

If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century.

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand? The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.

And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West.

Although abortion has been legal nationwide for more than a quarter century, access remains difficult for many women.

I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law.

What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the land around you or the self and even the urban landscape. You name it.

Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.

One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.

It was a dogma throughout most of the 20th century that quantum science only applied to subatomic matter, and we now know that not to be true. One of the major discoveries was Quantum Holography.

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great democratic forces in human history.

The twentieth century was marked by two broad trends: the regulation of capitalism and the deregulation of democracy. Both experiments overreached.

Should we force science down the throats of those that have no taste for it ? Is it our duty to drag them kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century ? I am afraid that it is.

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking for a round century before going further.

The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the servant of the Church.

Science is our century's art.

Whatever doesn't really happen is dreamed at night. It happens to one if it doesn't happen to another, tomorrow if not today, or a century hence if not next year.

Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.

Norman Rockwell, the Brueghel of the 20th century bourgeoisie, the Holbein of Jell-O ads and magazine covers; by common assent, the most American artist of all.

Nearly a half-century on from feminism, simply being a woman artist is still a revolutionary act. And getting one's work shown continues to be met by enormous inbuilt resistance.

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular.

It didn't take elaborate experiments to deduce that an infant would die from want of food. But it took centuries to figure out that infants can and do perish from want of love.

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.

I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.

The river flowed from century to century, and human affairs play themselves out on its banks. Play themselves out to be forgotten the next day, while the river flows on.

I've never regretted I was born too soon. I'm proud to be a child of the twentieth century. I'm satisfied to join its ranks on our side and fight for a new world.

I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical a fact as the rise and fall of Rome.

Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards.

Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.

It is in the fusion of autochthonous Jews with semi-Jewish Khazars and Kabars in the tenth century that we must seek the earliest demographic basis of the Jewish population of medieval Hungary.

Looking at paintings was a huge part of finding my way into the lush world of the 18th century.

The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts.

What if miliseconds influence centuries?

It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.

Hayek became in his later years the dominant intellectual influence of the last quarter of the twentieth century.

Even under the best of circumstances - in twenty-first century America at least - caring for elderly parents ain't no place for sissies.

[The Democratic Party]it's a party with an incredible century-and-a-half history of institutional racism.