Century Quotes

The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.

Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century.

Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.

The wars of the twenty-first century will be fought over water.

We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.

The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

I’m a Republican who embraces science and understands we have to work with the next generation of Millennials to have the innovation and technology so that we can grow a 21st century economy.

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

Without a song, each day would be a century.

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.

It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.

To say that Sputnik gave rise to some concern in the United States would be the understatement of the century. The truth is that the US went apeshit

Indeed, through fundamental advances in bionics in this century, we will set the technological foundation for an enhanced human experience, and we will end disability.

she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.

I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.

I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization - you can't just swallow it whole.

Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people

If you plant for a season, plant budgets. If you plant for a decade, plant reorganization, If you plant for a century, plant people

The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room or in the official museums.

Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of play culture imposed by adults.

My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading.

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England

I was surprised when Nixon passed the test and showed up in heaven, but, I guess Hitler threw off the curve for our century.

The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn about us.

The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade.

When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.

The true meaning of Christmas is actually centuries of gullibility.

I was fortunate in the last century to be in the two biggest hits film-wise, "Godfather I" and "Godfather II," and "Lonesome Dove".

I doubt that the evil spirits of the past, under which we in Europe have already suffered more than enough this century, have been banished for ever.

Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.

The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.

Many years later, another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the twenty-first century must be left to answer.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!

I'm a firm believer that education is the most efficient tool we have to make people aware and make our children aware, and to protect them from the scourge of the century, which is AIDS

Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.