Century Quotes

A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.

Any team can have a bad century.

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.

Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.

The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization.

I am a person of the 18th century.

A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.

The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.

Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.

Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.

A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.

By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries is the power of thought.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.

There is, of course, a world of difference between cricket and the movie business ... I suppose doing a love scene with Racquel Welch roughly corresponds to scoring a century be fore lunch.

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

Minds are the real estate of the 21st century.

Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had increased considerably.

employers sense in me a denial of their values...they fear me. i suspect that they can see that i am forced to function in a century which i loathe.

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.

He lives century after century, and the test I set for him he has passed.

I think, as everyone knows, Charles Kushner is one of the most successful businessmen in the United States and one of the great philanthropists of this century.

The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the 20th century has been the forecast.

The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.

The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.

Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.

My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.

Many of the problems the world faces today are the eventual result of short-term measures taken last century.

In the 21st Century I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound, awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion.

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

As we move into the twenty-first century, women's status in society will become the standard by which to measure our progress toward civility and peace.

No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ensure that it is better than what befell them in the twentieth, the century of the Holocaust.

Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.

News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.

I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we consider desirable in the 21st century.

If I repeated some passages from the homilies of the Church Fathers, in the second or third century, about how we must treat the poor, some would accuse me of giving a Marxist homily.

I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.