Century Quotes

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.

There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.

The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life

The first genocide of the 21st century was against you, the Armenian people.

In the 21st century, the database is the marketplace.

Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.

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.

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

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.

At the end of a century that has seen the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies, the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent.

Because the New Testament provides the primary historical source for information on the resurrection, many critics during the 19th century attacked the reliability of these biblical documents.

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

It's no wonder we know how to dress; we've spent centuries in closets.

I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

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

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

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.

A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think.

The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control.

There's no happy ending where we prevent climate change any more. Now the question is, is it going to be a miserable century or an impossible one, and what comes after that.

Aging will create the music of the coming century.

In August, 1900, [Friedrich] Nietzsche was laid to rest Nietzsche, as the apostle of atheism, heralded the darkest century the world has ever known.

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don’t need to worry about me; I have a college education. I’m not destitute. I'm living like this by choice.

As we take stock of this century of achievement, Ulster Unionists have every reason to feel proud.

Kindness Day? Kindness Day? Do you suppose if we were kind and enthusiastic for centuries uninterruptedly, that someone would create 'Nasty, Indifferent Day'?

The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the eye rather than the ear.

It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.

He loved us personally...centuries before we were born.

The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last.

After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.

I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant

The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.

Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.

Civilization as we know it will come to an end sometime in this century unless we can find a way to live without fossil fuels.

There is one fault that I must find With the twentieth century. And I'll put it in a couple of words; Too adventury. What I'd like would be some nice dull monotony If anyone's gotony.

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.

America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.

Populists and isolationists ignore the tangible benefits that have resulted from our active international role during the past half-century.

The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the plague of our century and we'll not survive this one.

The vast majority of all consequences, especially in 21st century America, are completely meaningless bullshit.

To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.

Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.

For a century, the Arabs tribes gave Islam the first of these victories. Then the rough mountain peoples of North Africa, the Berbers, helped it to conquer Spain and organize Fatimid Egypt.

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.

The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.

I think the next century will be the century of complexity.