Our Century Quotes

29 quotes by 26 authors

• The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of… — John Berger
• Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of… — Abdallah II
• 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
• I think that the discovery of antimatter was perhaps the biggest jump of all the big jumps in physics in our century. — Werner Heisenberg
• The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to be of the… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
• The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end… — Aharon Appelfeld
• When historians look back on our century, they may remember it most, not for space travel or the release of nuclear energy, but as the… — Huston Smith
• The two great movements of our century -- towards Liberty of the individual and social co-operation of the whole community -- are summed up in… — Peter Kropotkin
• The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as… — Eric Hobsbawm
• Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than… — Ben Hecht
• The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual… — Ben Hecht
• There is hardly an aspect of contemporary history more irritating and mystifying than the fact that of all the great unsolved political questions of our… — Hannah
• The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time. — John Fowles
• And Burke, could he see our century, never would concede that a consumption-society, so near to suicide, is the end for which Providence has prepared… — Russell Kirk
• I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and… — Leonard Bernstein
• It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for… — Hannah Arendt
• Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century,… — Harold Rosenberg
• The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion. — Matthew Arnold
• Reality in our century is not something to be faced. — Graham Greene
• The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn. — Pope John Paul II

Who Wrote These Our Century Quotes

26 authors contributed a total of 29 Our Century Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Our Century Quotes by John Kennedy Toole
• 2 Our Century Quotes by John Fowles
• 2 Our Century Quotes by Ben Hecht
• 1 Our Century Quote by Werner Heisenberg
• 1 Our Century Quote by Walter Wink
• 1 Our Century Quote by Vladimir Lenin
• 1 Our Century Quote by Russell Kirk
• 1 Our Century Quote by Pope John Paul II
• 1 Our Century Quote by Peter Kropotkin
• 1 Our Century Quote by Michael Crichton
• 1 Our Century Quote by Matthew Arnold
• 1 Our Century Quote by Leonard Bernstein
• 1 Our Century Quote by Leo Tolstoy
• 1 Our Century Quote by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
• 1 Our Century Quote by John Berger
• 1 Our Century Quote by Huston Smith
• 1 Our Century Quote by Hermann von Helmholtz
• 1 Our Century Quote by Harold Rosenberg
• 1 Our Century Quote by Hannah Arendt
• 1 Our Century Quote by Hannah
• 1 Our Century Quote by Graham Greene
• 1 Our Century Quote by Eric Hobsbawm
• 1 Our Century Quote by Christiane Amanpour
• 1 Our Century Quote by Charles Bukowski
• 1 Our Century Quote by Aharon Appelfeld