Century Quotes · Page 23

In this century, not only has science changed the world faster than ever, but in new and different ways. Targeted drugs, genetic…

— Martin Rees

The public negotiations and secret intrigues of the English (Jews) and the French (Jews) have been employed for centuries in every court…

— John Adams

The years 1781 to 1793 are crucial for many reasons, but chiefly because they pose in an especially clear way the main…

— Frederick C. Beiser

The ameliorating march of the last few centuries has been initiated by the heretics of each age, though I concede that the…

— Charles Bradlaugh

In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement!…

— Holly Near

Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue…

— Dennis Flanagan

What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.

— Lew Wallace

Throughout the twentieth century and into the beginning of the twenty-first, the United States repeatedly used its military power, and that of…

— Stephen Kinzer

Do right, and public approval will follow; either the next hour or the next century.

— John C. Lettsome

The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of…

— Richard Fortey

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

— Gordon Getty

I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.

— Thomas Jefferson

For one thing, before the 20th century, there were plenty of genocides. We tend to forget about them, partly because they weren't…

— Steven Pinker

We have a hieroglyphical inscription in the British Museum as early as the reign of Sevechus of the eighth century before the…

— Samuel Sharpe

Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they…

— Pankaj Mishra

Decades go faster toward the end of a century.

— Hortense Calisher

The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the nineteenth century in On Liberty.…

— Milton Friedman

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which…

— Newt Gingrich

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

— Ralph Adams Cram

For more than half a century... this Union has stood unshaken. Whatever dangers may threaten it, I shall stand by it and…

— Zachary Taylor

One thing we do know is that mass literacy is a product of the 19th century, at least in English-speaking cultures -…

— Robert Hass

In fact, 37 percent of all United States Nobel Prize winners in the 20th century have been representatives of the Jewish community.

— Jon Porter

Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat…

— Art Donovan

[The Democratic Party]it's a party with an incredible century-and-a-half history of institutional racism.

— Sean Hannity

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and…

— James Anthony Froude