The world is a colony of the US. The twentieth century was…

The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was the century of nation states, and the 21st is the century of cities…

— Sadiq Khan

“One of my seminars is “Leadership in the 20th century: How being a century behind still puts you ahead of all your competition still…

— Jarod Kintz

In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was…

— David Gerrold

I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitations and references to people who have been…

— Gilbert Gottfried

He lives century after century, and the test I set for him he has passed.

— Meera

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

— Wellington Webb

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

— Stephen Hawking

The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of…

— Lester R. Brown

We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place in the…

— Margaret Atwood

The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living…

— S. Jay Olshansky

For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had…

— Khaled Hosseini

The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to…

— Harold Innis

It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all…

— Martin Amis

The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship,…

— John Ortberg

In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying…

— Simone Weil