Century Quotes · Page 10

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

— Constance Baker Motley

Christianity spread rapidly during the first century because all Christians saw themselves as responsible for disseminating the gospel.

— Erwin W. Lutzer

Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of…

— Sam Harris

If the present tax rates had been in effect from the beginning of our century, many who are millionaires today would live…

— Ludwig von Mises

Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface…

— David Frost

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues…

— Anonymous

The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but…

— Barbara Tuchman

...The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty…

— J. Paul Getty

Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the…

— Christopher Hitchens

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

— Neil Armstrong

India lives in several centuries at the same time. Every night outside my house I pass a road gang of emaciated laborers…

— Arundhati Roy

Titles are too "thin" for the nineteenth century.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half…

— Bob Filner

If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have…

— Learned Hand

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

— David Hockney

Remember, there are only a few model preachers. We have read of only one perfect Model, and He was crucified many centuries…

— Charles Henry Fowler

Liberty and morality had to win their way slowly over many centuries, until finally expanding liberty made possible the great technological advance…

— Murray Rothbard

Life is not somewhere waiting for you, it is happening in you. It is not in the future as a goal to…

— Rajneesh

Why does mineral water that 'has trickled through mountains for centuries' have a 'use by' date?

— Peter Kay

I think we ought to have a kindness year, or a kindness century.

— Jilly Cooper

To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is…

— Adora Svitak

The four words that will define this century: The Earth is full.

— Paul Gilding

As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe…

— Arthur Koestler

Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully…

— David Hare

Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.

— Friedrich Schiller