Last Century Quotes

79 quotes by 77 authors

• 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
• 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
• I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in his concept… — Robert Andrews Millikan
• If the great story of the last century was the conflict among various political ideologies-communism, fascism and democracy-then the great narrative of this century will… — Cynthia Tucker
• As a progressive discipline [biochemistry] belongs to the present century. From the experimental physiologists of the last century it obtained a charter, and, from a… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
• Over the last century, physicists have used light quanta, electrons, alpha particles, X-rays, gamma-rays, protons, neutrons and exotic sub-nuclear particles for this purpose [scattering experiments].… — Unknown Author
• Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen...We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars… — Nicholas Stern
• Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses, as… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
• Global warming results not from the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but from an unusually high level of solar radiation and a lengthy… — Khabibullo Abdusamatov
• Global warming results not from the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but from an unusually high level of solar radiation and a lengthy… — Khabibullo Abdusamatov
• During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The… — Albert Einstein
• How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of… — Mary Augusta Ward
• The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to… — Christian Lous Lange
• One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the most harm to… — Joe Haldeman
• The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years. — James Hansen
• In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a… — Chen-Ning Yang
• Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There… — Wendell Phillips
• Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining hall was first built. The… — Danny Hillis
• South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century. — Louis Leakey
• I am always fascinated when people talk about 'the forging of a nation'. Most nations are forgeries, perpetrated in the last century or so. — Neal Ascherson

Who Wrote These Last Century Quotes

77 authors contributed a total of 79 Last Century Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Last Century Quotes by Khabibullo Abdusamatov
• 2 Last Century Quotes by Albert Einstein
• 1 Last Century Quote by Alasdair Gray
• 1 Last Century Quote by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
• 1 Last Century Quote by Dennis Kucinich
• 1 Last Century Quote by David Byrne
• 1 Last Century Quote by Joan Ryan
• 1 Last Century Quote by Stephen Covey
• 1 Last Century Quote by H. L. Mencken
• 1 Last Century Quote by Arthur Erickson
• 1 Last Century Quote by David Bronstein
• 1 Last Century Quote by Carroll Quigley
• 1 Last Century Quote by Carol Moseley Braun
• 1 Last Century Quote by Stacy Schiff
• 1 Last Century Quote by Jonah Goldberg
• 1 Last Century Quote by Denzel Washington
• 1 Last Century Quote by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• 1 Last Century Quote by Niklas Zennstrom
• 1 Last Century Quote by Robert Duvall
• 1 Last Century Quote by Hannah Arendt
• 1 Last Century Quote by Isabel Allende
• 1 Last Century Quote by Niall Ferguson
• 1 Last Century Quote by Beatrix Potter
• 1 Last Century Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton
• 1 Last Century Quote by Bobby Fischer