Past Century Quotes

24 quotes by 23 authors

• From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by… — Ron Paul
• The American Dream that has lured tens of millions of all nations to our shores in the past century has not been a dream of… — James Truslow Adams
• For most of history, war has been a more or less functional institution, providing benefits for those societies that were good at it, although the… — Gwynne Dyer
• The 'corporatization of America' during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy. — Noam Chomsky
• American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century. — Diane Ravitch
• But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other Australian writers' work… — Thomas Keneally
• One of the most intuitive nature writers of our recently past century, Peter Matthiessen, lends a poets voice to the desperate effort to save the… — Ron Franscell
• In just the past century we have almost doubled the percentage of fat in our diets--from 20% in 1910 to about 35% today. — Paul Zane Pilzer
• An illuminating read for every classical scholar engaged with the current quest for the subject's roots, and the excavation of the way that it has… — Edith Hall
• To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands of an unlimited… — Robert Higgs
• One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent? — Leon Kass
• It was very depressing to realize that, when looking around for regimes that have systematically corrupted science within the past century or so, three stood… — John Grant
• Throughout the past century there has always existed a significant minority of first-rate biologists who have never been able to bring themselves to accept the… — Michael Denton
• We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact… — Prince Charles
• A relatively small and eternally quarrelsome country in Western Europe, fountainhead of rationalist political manias, militarily impotent, historically inglorious during the past century, democratically bankrupt,… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed… — Irving Kristol
• The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the… — Jacob Burckhardt
• We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many more, but the… — Bjorn Lomborg
• It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins. — Michael Pollan
• The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization. — Paul Krugman

Who Wrote These Past Century Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 24 Past Century Quotes as follows:

• 2 Past Century Quotes by Prince Charles
• 1 Past Century Quote by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• 1 Past Century Quote by Thomas Keneally
• 1 Past Century Quote by Terry Pratchett
• 1 Past Century Quote by Ron Paul
• 1 Past Century Quote by Ron Franscell
• 1 Past Century Quote by Robert Higgs
• 1 Past Century Quote by Paul Zane Pilzer
• 1 Past Century Quote by Paul Krugman
• 1 Past Century Quote by Noam Chomsky
• 1 Past Century Quote by Michael Pollan
• 1 Past Century Quote by Michael Denton
• 1 Past Century Quote by Leon Kass
• 1 Past Century Quote by John Grant
• 1 Past Century Quote by Jerry Springer
• 1 Past Century Quote by James Truslow Adams
• 1 Past Century Quote by Jacob Burckhardt
• 1 Past Century Quote by Irving Kristol
• 1 Past Century Quote by Gwynne Dyer
• 1 Past Century Quote by George Packer
• 1 Past Century Quote by Edith Hall
• 1 Past Century Quote by Diane Ravitch
• 1 Past Century Quote by Bjorn Lomborg