Century Quotes

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.

I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century

The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.

You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles and refrigerators in the sky.

If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.

Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.

We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.

Lenin, the greatest man of action in our century and at the same time the most selfless.

Oh, God! That boy moves in a very exceptional way. That's the greatest dancer of the century.

I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.

Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.

We are one America. If we work together across party lines, there's no problem we can't solve and the 21st century will be America's greatest century.

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

But whatever you might say and whatever I might say, a machine which can play chess with people is one of the most marvellous wonders of our 20th century!

The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be described as a community of scholars.

It is very easy for me to imagine in 200 years, people looking back at chemotherapy as proof that people of the 20th century were insane and just morons.

The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.

We must now, in the 21st century, protect democracy, one which rests on fundamental rights for all, regardless of skin color, gender, race or religion. Nothing less than that is at stake.

Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz.

I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century.

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

I like living in the 20th century... to me the world has never been more beautiful. I am trying to paint the real world I live in, as beautifully as I can with my own eyes.

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

We live in a century in which everything has been said. The challenge today is to learn which statements to deny.

the hymns were born in the fifteenth or sixteenth century or earlier, and listening to them was like licking an icicle: the same chill, the same purity.

We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.

The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!

The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile.

If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue.

When earth gets good and crowded, like 15th century England, then some new Pilgrims are gonna rocket their Mayflowers to a new solar system.

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.

There's practically no religion that I know of that sees other people in a way that affirms the others' choices. But in our century we're forced to think about a pluralistic world.

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end".