Century Quotes

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.

I saw Linus Pauling as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century's greatest chemist. No doubt about it.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.

Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn

We all lived in this century, I didn't live in this century.

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.

The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls

The fifth century BC historian Herodotus called Egypt ‘the gift of the Nile’. The Egyptians themselves went a lot further. They claimed that their sacred river had its source among the stars.

Peer reviewers go for orthodoxy ... Many of the great 19th-century discoveries were made by men who had independent wealth-Charles Darwin is the prototype. They trusted themselves.

Society presses upon us all the time. The progress of the last half century is the progress of the frog out of his well.

The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant.

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

For more than a half a century, we know that we prospered because of a bipartisan consensus on defense and foreign policy. We must do more than return to that sensible, cooperative approach.

Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.

By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.

In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always.

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century

A century that began with children having virtually no rights is ending with children having the most powerful legal instrument that not only recognizes but protects their human rights.

The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.

Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce

Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?

It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.

Solidarity was the best thing which happened in the 20th century.

It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.

In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

The last time the Cubs won the World Series was 1908. The last time they were in one was 1945. Hey, any team can have a bad century.

If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the past two thousand years.

Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises.

The most important issue of the 21st century will be the condition of the global environment.

Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic.

I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century.

Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.

Water will be more important than oil this century

The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world.

Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.

Spielberg's film portrays Oscar as a hero of this century. That is not true. Neither he nor I were heroes. We were just what we were able to be. In war we are all souls without a destiny.

It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China.

The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology

It is all about technique. The great mistake of this century is to put inspiration and creativity first.

Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.

Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.