Century Quotes
But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.
It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world history as Lenin.
From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.
In the 21st Century, I'd like to think women have the right to live lives free of both sexual violence and daily harassment, as well as any other form of inequality.
Technology and Ideology are shaking the foundations of 21st century capitalism. Technology is making skills and knowledge the only sources of sustainable strategic advantage.
Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.
We used to think that energy and water would be the critical issues for the next century. Now we think water will be the critical issue.
History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.
The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century.
I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.
The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.
Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.
In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.
The two great movements of our century -- towards Liberty of the individual and social co-operation of the whole community -- are summed up in Anarchist-Communism.
Mitt Romney has asked Todd Akin to step down. That's too bad. Todd Akin was the guy to lead the Republican Party into the 16th century.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.
The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.
Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.
Don't be afraid of anything. We've seen so much suffering and evil in the 20th century and we got through it. We can go on. God is with us. God will help us. Trust Him.
Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it.
In the last century the Arab thinker Jamal al-Afghani wrote: 'Every Muslim is sick and his only remedy is in the Koran.' Unfortunately the sickness gets worse the more the remedy is taken.
If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes to late.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.
The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.
For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.
It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.
A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.
Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.
I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century.
If you think of 'Liberty Valance' or 'The Searchers,' there are moments in there that you'll never, ever forget... And it does not matter what century you are from.
One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.
The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.
American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.
Almost a century has passed since Japan first entered the world community by concluding a treaty of amity with the United States of America in 1854.
The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.
When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.
In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations–great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to be agreeable too.
The Breed never dies. Sapper, Buchan, Dornford Yates, practitioners in that school of Snobbery withViolence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth-century literature.
I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts.