The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was…

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

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

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

— Bill Henson

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

— Stephen Hawking

“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

You only had widespread literacy and books that people could afford in the middle of the 19th century. Did more people read poetry at…

— Robert Hass

In the 19th century, when Muslims were looking at Europe as an example, they were independent; they were more self-confident. In the early 20th…

— Mustafa Akyol

Russia was the last to leave the 19th century and the most rapid to enter the mandates of the 20th century. It was not…

— Amor Towles

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in…

— Lillian Hellman

Well, the first thing I had to do was to read a lot. First of all, about education... and looking at education from the…

— Michael Haneke

If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many…

— Alan Moore

If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you…

— Zygmunt Bauman