Quotes and Sayings About Century

This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.
-- A. L. Rowse

#Hate #Century #Filthy

The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century,
-- Achim Steiner

#Humanity #Way #Century

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.
-- Alan Hovhaness

#Sympathy #Thinking #Century

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
-- Alan Paton

#Dawn #Failing #Century

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
-- Albert Camus

#Real #Passion #Century

At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.
-- Albert Camus

#People #Happiness And Love #Century

This is the century of fear.
-- Albert Camus

#Fear #Century

The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
-- Albert Schweitzer

#Brother #My Brother #Century

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

#Writing #Layers #Century

Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.
-- Alexandra Kerry

#Stronger #Fiction #Century

This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.
-- Alfred Bester

#Age #Freak #Century

So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Information #Printing #Century

For centuries, the question of men needing to comprehend women simply didn't arise. Men were valued according to how they measured up to the manly virtues.
-- Allison Pearson

#Men #Virtue #Century

Alvin Plantinga is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last century.
-- Alvin Plantinga

#Lasts #Philosopher #Century

To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.
-- Andrew Carnegie

#Peace #Men #Century

We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming
-- Andrew Simms

#Half #Global Warming #Century

We need to invest in peoples lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century.
-- Ann McLane Kuster

#Jobs #Needs #Century

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.
-- Anne Stevenson

#Horror #Century #21st Century

I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.
-- Arne Glimcher

#Dream #Century #20th Century

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.
-- Art Spiegelman

#Guy #Way #Century

Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols: logic, the only science which is admitted to have made no improvements in century after century, is the only one which has grown no symbols.
-- Augustus De Morgan

#Logic #Improvement #Century

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

#Century #Feudalism #Totalitarianism

Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.
-- Barbara Amiel

#Movement #Communist #Century

[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.
-- Barbara Tuchman

#Pain #Emotion #Century

...but in every century, and ever since England has been what it is, an Englishman has always felt somewhat ashamed of his own emotion and of his own sympathy.
-- Baroness Orczy

#England #Emotion #Century

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
-- Barry Lopez

#Quality #Century #Despise

Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.
-- Barry McGuigan

#Boxing #Training #Century

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
-- Ben Elton

#Century #Worst #Over It

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

#Historical #Century #Fascism

The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.
-- Bernard-Henri Levy

#Successful #Revolution #Century