Century Quotes

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the 19th century.

If the schooling system does not rapidly close the gap between what it does, and what it should do in response to the demands of the 21st century, it will simply become irrelevant.

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter.

In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.

One life is but a single act. One body - a garment. One century - a day. One task - an experience. One triumph - an acquisition. One death - a breath of renovation.

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.

Clear, crisp, and compelling. . . . Mitzvah Girls is a thoughtful look at the world of Jewish girls who grow up in 21st-century America, but don't really.

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.

On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character

Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.

I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much less globalization now than we did then.

India lives in several centuries at the same time.

At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.

In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.

And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.

One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them.

The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

I am the conscience of the 21st Century.

Vice-President Ford, possibly preparing for higher duties, assessed Kissinger's part in the Syrian-Israeli troop disengagement as "the great diplomatic triumph of this century or perhaps any other.

The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous human history

In American Society today, we need to have volunteerism. I truly believe that it is the glue that will hold us together and it will be the energy that will take us into the 21st century.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.

To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.

The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.

I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

The choice before us is simple. Will we continue to subsidize the dirty fossil fuels of the past, or will we transition to 21st century clean, renewable energy?

Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.

The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

No one who has lived through the second half of the 20th century could possibly be blind to the enormous impact of exchange programs on the future of countries.

I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.

We've got to have a legacy of leadership. We've got to bring along with us a generation of black women who are going to confront twenty-first-century realities.

When you undergo a visionary experience, what you are really doing is blowing your socially conditioned, 20th century, hive mind and allowing your brain to, literally, come to its senses.

I can imagine in a century or two that rule by women will be seen as a better bet than rule by men. What's wrong with men is that they tend to look for the violent solution. Women don't.

Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.

You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies.

I'm a 21st century guy, secure in who I am.