Century Quotes
What sort of personality does one need to have, as a twenty-first-century mechanic, to tolerate the layers of electronic bullshit that get piled on top of machines?
Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.
What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have been introduced had there been no Athenian empire.
I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!
You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies.
...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.
There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.
I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.
Our century is probably more religious than any other. How could it fail to be, with such problems to be solved? The only trouble is that it has not yet found a God it can adore.
Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.
A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.
I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big.
Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers.
A movement got started for common schools, and by the end of the 19th century, 91 percent of Americans could read and write.
Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future is for you to take control of that future.
Yes, deficits are a problem. I've been saying so for more than a quarter of a century now. But the problem is not the size of the deficit, it's the size of government's claim on our economy.
Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.
The Democratic Party is the - was the largest and most powerful institution supporting slavery in the English-speaking world. And it is the only one that has survived to the 21st century!
You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope.
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.
For the next century, we've got to put together what we so carelessly tore apart with so little concern for those who were gonna follow us. ... You've got to sound off.
Bollywood directors are like cricketers where in one match you score a century, and in the next match, you are out for a duck! Moreover, very few directors are consistent in Bollywood.
Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.
The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire.
King Fahd was a man of great vision and leadership who inspired his countrymen for a quarter of a century as king. He led Saudi Arabia through a period of unparalleled progress and development.
Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa.
I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life have equal moral value simply and merely because it is human?
The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.
Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.
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.
Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED
The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.
Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.
The 20th century was the century of war and blood. The 21st century is the century of dialogue.
A stable 21st century society requires 21st century solutions not 20th century economics
18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.
Rick Perry said America's revolutionary war was fought in the 16th century. When told it was actually the 18th century, Perry apologized and said, 'I never said I was a geology major.'
In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain or any nation.
Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st.
I would say, compared with the 19th century, compared with most previous history, this is as good or better a society than any which man has ever made. But that doesn't mean it is such a good one.
Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.
The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.
In the 21st Century, the capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right.
Western music is arguably America's greatest contribution to the 20th century, cultural or otherwise.
The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century.