Century Quotes

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.

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.

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.

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

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.

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

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

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

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.

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

Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century.

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

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

It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

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

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

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

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.

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.

The true meaning of Christmas is actually centuries of gullibility.

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

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

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