Century Quote by George Friedman Download Open image “A century is about events. A decade is about people.” — George Friedman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Century Events People
“Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century… — Wellington Webb Copy Share Image
The 20th century was the century of war and blood. The 21st century is the century of dialogue. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement. — Olivia De Havilland Copy Share Image
The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was the century of nation states, and the 21st is the century of cities… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come. — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
“The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or one such threat, but it was… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“In Geo-Politics, a nation has no permanent allies or permanent enemies, only permanent interests.” — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Galvanized people can do careless things. It is in the extreme and emotion-laden moments that distance and coolness are most required. I am tempted… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Assad's mother was a terror. He was terrified of her and she kept saying to him, you're not like your father. That's interesting, but… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
The Chinese have a long history of slaughtering each other without bothering their neighbors. — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Italy spills over to everything. Italy is a huge banking system. It has been the major banking system in Eastern Europe. It's worked with… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
If you go through the list of things that are not possible you're left with a very finite amount of possibilities. The fancy name… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
But every time new powers emerge they have to find their balance. New powers are emerging, old powers are declining. It's not that process… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
We cannot anticipate the moral circumstances under which we will live. And therefore [I refuse] to say that I will not live in a… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“While you and I are allowed the luxury of our pain, president isn't. A president must take into account how his citizens feel and… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
War is an extraordinary condition to be in - to be, for example, in the combat information center of a warship [and behaving] as… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
When you're young and going to war, it's a genuinely exciting moment. You are going to risk yourself. On the battlefield, you are suddenly… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is… — Phil Zimmermann Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
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