Century Quotes
Century Quote of the day
How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.
As a historical legacy, the Kashmir conflict has been an outstanding issue for more than half a century.
THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh . . . And the same thing is happening to my generation.
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
I am a 21st century man. I don’t believe in magic. I believe in sweat, tears, life and death.
When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time.
The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English.
In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
Deeds are not accomplished in a few days, or in a few hours. A century is only a spoke in the wheel of everlasting time.
If we look far into the future, one can see a time in the 21st century when both Europe and the USA will be in dire need of Russia as an ally.
We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!
Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn't allow us to forget.
This is a day we have managed to avoid for a quarter of a century. We've talked about it before and speculated about it, and it finally has occurred. We hoped we could push this day back forever.
Food history is as important as a baroque church. Governments should recognize cultural heritage and protect traditional foods. A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a sixteenth-century building.
Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries.
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.
Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past, and capable of meeting the rising aspirations of our people.
It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
In the 24th century there will be no hunger, there will be no greed, and all the children will know how to read.
'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.
Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation.
Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.
As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress.
For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.
We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.
If America is to succeed in responding to these 21st Century challenges, our political system cannot continue to bog down in the mire of partisan gamesmanship.
Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.
Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.
The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong.
A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society.
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.
The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.
South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.
The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.