Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a…

A stable 21st century society requires 21st century solutions not 20th century economics

— Phil Harding

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

— Susan George

“But that's Islam in the third millennium: they want the certainties of seventh-century society with the conveniences of the twenty-first century.”

— Mark Steyn

Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they shared not…

— Pankaj Mishra

The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future…

— Carroll Quigley

The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed…

— Eric Hoffer

The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth century and…

— Alister E. McGrath

The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the period when…

— Elgin Groseclose

In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics pretty well…

— Thomas Pynchon

I don't know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a way that…

— Russ Feingold

It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift was made…

— Rodney Clapp

'In the nineteenth century, we beat the British more than once,' Afghans often told me. 'In the twentieth century, we beat the Russians. In…

— William T. Vollmann

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

— Jill Lepore

“All the glorified technological achievements of Progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem the Twentieth century's moral poverty which no one…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century…

— Benito Mussolini