Century Quotes · Page 21

Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.

— Eric Hobsbawm

My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.

— Bram Stoker

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

— Gavin Bryars

After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.

— Philip Zimbardo

I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.

— Julian Fellowes

I'd rather see us as citizens than subjects in the 21st Century.

— Clive Lewis

Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

— Tina Brown

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

— Jennifer Stone

In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of…

— Stephen King

We are about half a century away from being ecologically and economically bankrupt because of global warming

— Andrew Simms

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

— Jonathan Sacks

You can't, in the 21st century, continue to live in a system where people live under martial law for 30 years.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.

— Alex Spanos

The number of those identifying as Aborigine in Tasmania rapidly rose in the late 20th century.

— Richard Flanagan

I felt no obligation to bow to any 21st Century political correctness. What I did feel an obligation to do was to…

— Quentin Tarantino

We should abolish 'work.' By that I mean abolishing the distinction between work and leisure, one of the greatest mistakes of the…

— Theodore Zeldin

And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of…

— Paul Ryan

We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness…

— Albert Camus

Use "breath prayers" throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence or a simple phrase…

— Rick Warren

...There is a school of thought, a heresy from the madhouse of heresies in the ninth century, that says God is good…

— Norman Rush

The Democratic Party is the - was the largest and most powerful institution supporting slavery in the English-speaking world. And it is…

— Sean Hannity

Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the…

— Martin Scorsese

His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern…

— Walter de La Mare

The legs, for example, of that chair--how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes--or was it several…

— Aldous Huxley

“If, years later, I do use the slit detector to observe which way the electron went, it will mean that many years…

— Marcus du Sautoy

I am not going to say you are right because I could not take it if you smirked." "I do not smirk,"…

— Christine Feehan

When you break up the individuals from a community into individual units, they become disempowered because it's the collective consciousness and the…

— Bruce H. Lipton

[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I don't care what the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled…

— Peter Drucker

Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it…

— Strobe Talbott

I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane.

— Muriel Rukeyser

There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences.

— Cary Fukunaga

Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.

— Cynthia Heimel

In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

— Eddie Obeng

FGM breaches all human rights and has no place in any 21st century society.

— Waris Dirie

Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.

— Daniel Kleppner

Detroits industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

— Alasdair MacIntyre