Best Century Sayings

3251 Century quotes by 2144 unique authors

• The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. — Albert Camus
• For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts… — Albert Camus
• Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil… — Thomas Carlyle
• More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature. — John le Carre
• The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph… — Noam Chomsky
• We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any… — Deepak Chopra
• The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium. — Arthur C. Clarke
• Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th… — John Henrik Clarke
• Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight… — Isabel Allende
• I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century. — Hillary Clinton
• For centuries, New York has served as the gateway for millions of people from all over the world in search of the American dream. It… — Hillary Clinton
• President Obama's approach embodies the values, the ideas, and the direction America must take to build a 21st century version of the American Dream in… — William J. Clinton
• Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without… — Eric Alterman
• I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the… — Christiane Amanpour
• Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and… — Stephen Ambrose
• I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they… — Tori Amos
• You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made -… — Tori Amos
• I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities,… — Tadao Ando
• I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I… — Maya Angelou
• In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and… — Kofi Annan
• Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be… — Susan B. Anthony
• The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy. — Winston Churchill
• Whether one traces his Americanism back three centuries to the Mayflower, or three years to the steerage, is not half so important as whether his… — Calvin Coolidge
• The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape.… — Unknown Author

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