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Century Quotes

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He who finds a new path is a pathfinder, even if the trail has to be found again by others; and he who walks far ahead of his contemporaries is a leader, even though centuries pass before he is recognized as such.
Ibn Khaldun

Authors on Century Quotes: Dalai Lama Friedrich Nietzsche Albert Camus Sherrilyn Kenyon Malcolm Muggeridge Bram Stoker Barack Obama Umberto Eco Bertrand Russell Daisaku Ikeda John Kennedy Toole Rahul Gandhi Henry Adams Jorge Luis Borges Noam Chomsky Ralph Waldo Emerson Ken Follett Gordon Getty Peter Drucker William J. Clinton Claude Debussy Susan B. Anthony John McCain Stephen Ambrose David Hare Sylvia Earle Cecilia Bartoli Gertrude Stein Ralph Adams Cram Bjork Erich Fromm Vladimir Putin Barbara Tuchman
2.
Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.
Susan B. Anthony

3.
The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time.
Peter Drucker

4.
Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
Barbara Amiel

5.
In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
C. L. R. James

6.
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
Claude Levi-Strauss

7.
It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
Ingrid Newkirk

8.
'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.
Russell Means

9.
Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.
Russell Lynes

10.
We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.
Eugene O'Neill

11.
I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.
Cecilia Bartoli

12.
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.
Friedrich Nietzsche

13.
The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.
John Naisbitt

14.
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

15.
Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.
Martin Heidegger

16.
The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines are spurred on as result of a global oversupply of grain staples.
Michel Chossudovsky

17.
If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.
Douglas Rushkoff

18.
We all lived in this century, I didn't live in this century.
Dan Quayle

19.
By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.
Donna J. Haraway

20.
Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.
Jacob Zuma

21.
Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century.
Daisaku Ikeda

22.
We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century
Oriana Fallaci

23.
Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always.
Errico Malatesta

24.
It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange

25.
Solidarity was the best thing which happened in the 20th century.
Mikhail Saakashvili

26.
Helvetica was a real step from the 19th century typeface... We were impressed by that because it was more neutral, and neutralism was a word that we loved. It should be neutral. It shouldn't have a meaning in itself. The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface.
Wim Crouwel

27.
Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic.
James Laver

28.
No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21st century. Will they be dangerous? Possibly. So I suggest we put a chip in their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts.
Michio Kaku

29.
I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century.
Edward Wilmot Blyden

30.
The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.
Albert Camus

31.
To be happy you have to fulfill your nature. That's what Aristotle taught so many centuries ago, that the road to happiness isn't to go drink more or consume more. The road to happiness is to fully develop your abilities, and then apply them to do good.
Charles Koch

32.
to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world.
Marie-Antoine Careme

33.
I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.
Newt Gingrich

34.
Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century.
Mary Robinson

35.
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.
Cornel West

36.
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
Benito Mussolini

37.
I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.
Raymond Loewy

38.
If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.
Theodore Dalrymple

39.
A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.
Todd Gitlin

40.
History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.
James Monroe

41.
I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.
Henry Ford

42.
From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
Will Durant

43.
The true meaning of Christmas is actually centuries of gullibility.
Anthony Jeselnik

44.
My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.
Johnny Vegas

45.
I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.
Christiane Amanpour

46.
A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries
Grant Morrison

47.
Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.
Jill Lepore

48.
The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.
James Howard Kunstler

49.
A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.
William Winwood Reade

50.
Any team can have a bad century.
Jack Brickhouse