We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy…

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and…

— Henry Morton Stanley

In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the…

— Stendhal

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.

— Anonymous

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

— Phil Harding

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed…

— John McGahern

“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

There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that…

— Robert Nelson

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

We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.

— Amory Lovins

Here's what I don't think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in the 19th…

— Michael Moore

Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's a 19th…

— Wesley Clark

What came out of that was an intense obsession with status anxiety. So much of these portraits are about fashioning oneself into the image…

— Kehinde Wiley

I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.

— Bill Watterson

Like the railroads that brought us together in the 19th century, these trails will bring us together in the 20th and 21st centuries. (at…

— Hillary Clinton

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need…

— Susan George