quotes about Century
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This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.
-- A. L. Rowse -
The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century,
-- Achim SteinerSource : "Globalisation and agriculture industry exacerbating bee decline, says UN" by Fiona Harvey, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2011.
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It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
-- Alan Paton -
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The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
-- Albert Camus -
At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.
-- Albert Camus -
The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
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I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.
-- Alberto Moravia -
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 KerrySource : Alexandra Kerry (2008). “Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out”, p.8, Rodale
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This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.
-- Alfred BesterSource : Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”
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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 WhiteheadSource : Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.9, Book Tree
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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 PearsonSource : "Irrational. Contradictory. Mad" by Allison Pearson, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2007.
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Alvin Plantinga is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last century.
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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 -
We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming
-- Andrew Simms -
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We need to invest in peoples lives so that they can do the jobs of the 21st century.
-- Ann McLane Kuster -
I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.
-- Anne Stevenson -
I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.
-- Arne GlimcherSource : "The Mindy Project's Ed Weeks Reveals All About Women and Acting and Why He Won't Drive a BMW". Interview with Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. November 19, 2013.
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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.
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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 MorganSource : Augustus De Morgan (1966). “On the syllogism: and other logical writings”
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Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.
-- Barbara Amiel -
Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.
-- Barbara Amiel -
[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
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...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 OrczySource : Baroness Orczy (2015). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.31, Xist Publishing
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Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.
-- Barry Lopez -
Boxing is changing and training methods are slowly being dragged into the 21st century.
-- Barry McGuigan -
The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
-- Ben EltonSource : Russell Baker (1965). “All Things Considered”
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Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
-- Benito Mussolini -
The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.
-- Bernard-Henri Levy -
Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.
-- Betty Dodson -
Aging will create the music of the coming century.
-- Betty Friedan -
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In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it.
-- Bill Nye -
I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.
-- Bjork -
Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
-- Bjork -
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What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth
-- Boris Pasternak -
My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
-- Bram StokerSource : Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula”, p.262, Zillmann Publishing
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If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now.
-- Brian Aldiss -
Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.
-- Brian Ferneyhough -
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Over the centuries, monumental upheavals in science have emerged time and again from following the leads set out by mathematics.
-- Brian Greene -
The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.
-- Bruce Sterling -
If we don't take the necessary measures, famine will be the scandal of this century,
-- Bruno Le Maire -
When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
-- Calvin Trillin -
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EFT is destined to be a top healing tool for the 21st Century.
-- Candace Pert -
If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles.
-- Carl Sagan -
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 -
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People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.
-- Celia GreenSource : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton
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By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries is the power of thought.
-- Charles F. Haanel -
Remember, there are only a few model preachers. We have read of only one perfect Model, and He was crucified many centuries ago.
-- Charles Henry FowlerSource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 476), 1895.
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Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.
-- Christian Lous Lange -
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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 -
The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
-- Claude Debussy -
The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
-- Claude Debussy -
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Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss -
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism
-- Constance Baker Motley -
I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.
-- Cornel West -
Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.
-- Coventry Patmore -
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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century.
-- Daisaku Ikeda -
for centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new ...
-- Dale Spender -
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin -
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Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.
-- David G. Hartwell -
Although abortion has been legal nationwide for more than a quarter century, access remains difficult for many women.
-- David Grimes -
Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.
-- David Hare -
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
-- David Hare -
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In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain or any nation.
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The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century.
-- Diana Butler Bass -
No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
-- Diana Vreeland -
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. HarawaySource : "Become Who You Are: The World’s First Legally Recognized Cyborg May Be Onto Something" by Priscilla Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2015.
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The twentieth century saw the emergence of a Churchless Mission and a Missionless Church
-- Eddie Gibbs -
At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent
-- Edward James Olmos -
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 BlydenSource : Edward Wilmot Blyden (1976). “Selected Works of Dr. Edward Wilmot Blyden”
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Rome is ... an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn ...
-- Eleanor ClarkSource : Eleanor Clark (1952). “Rome and a Villa”
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I cannot become modest; too many things burn in me; the old solutions are falling apart; nothing has been done yet with the new ones. So I begin, everywhere at once, as if I had a century ahead of me.
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Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
-- Emile Zola -
Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always.
-- Errico MalatestaSource : Errico Malatesta, Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress) (1933). “A talk between two workers”
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I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future.
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Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.
-- Frank B. Kellogg -
What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.
-- Frank Crowninshield -
One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.
-- Frank RichSource : "What We Don’t Know Will Hurt Us". www.nytimes.com. February 21, 2009.
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True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries.
-- Franz CumontSource : Franz Cumont (2013). “Astrology and Religion”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc
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Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.
-- Frederick W. Smith -
Live with your century; but do not be its creature.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
Not only did she [Marilyn Monroe] master her own image, create it and ultimately control it, she was the subject of many of the great masters of photography of the 20th century.
-- Gail LevinSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.
-- Garrett FortSource : "Fictional character: Prof. Von Helsing". "Dracula's Daughter", 1936.
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Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.
-- Gary Hamel -
A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.
-- Gary Saul Morson -
Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
-- Gavin Bryars -
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We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work.
-- Geoffrey Blainey -
The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
-- Georg BuchnerSource : "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act II, 1835.
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Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.
-- George Crumb -
A century is about events. A decade is about people.
-- George FriedmanSource : George Friedman (2011). “The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going”, p.1, Anchor
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But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
-- George SaintsburySource : George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.162, tredition
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At American Airlines, we have built a business around the love of travel that has lasted three quarters of a century. And I'm pretty sure we're just getting started.
-- Gerard Arpey -
I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster.
-- Geri Halliwell -
There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.
-- Giacomo Leopardi -