Century Quotes

Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

The warming we've experienced in the late 20th century could just as easily be explained by small decreases in cloud cover - natural changes in the system - and have nothing to do with CO2.

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.

And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

Animal research and testing has played a part in almost every medical breakthrough of the last century. It has saved hundreds of millions of lives worldwide.

In the 21st century, culture is power.

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.

Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.

We were once getting married. And I have loved you all this time- a century and a half. -Jem

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".

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extinguished more than one hundred million people.

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.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.

Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.

the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)

Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends?

I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century.

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.

There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.

The speeding toy cars produce in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st-century city.

If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.

Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.

We have introduced a rule of law. That never existed for centuries in this country [South Africa], especially under the apartheid regime, when the law was reduced into disrepute.

In a sense, Britain inadvertently, through its actions in Hong Kong, did more to reduce world poverty than all the aid programs that we've undertaken in the last century.

India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years.

It is as though a portal in time has opened, and the Christians of the 14th century are pouring into our world.

Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life.

Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age

You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.

We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.

We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.

FGM breaches all human rights and has no place in any 21st century society.

I'm homeless, in a funny way. My culture I think is completely rooted in German 19th century music I suppose.

Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.