Advantage Quote by Henry David Thoreau

If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do - perhaps above…

— James Gleick

“...in one hundred years we have lost the best human virtues of the nineteenth century: fervent idealism and the primacy of feeling: the shock…

— Gabriel García Márquez

Let's forget a little about the 19th century and start looking at the 21st century.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.

— James Howard Kunstler

The big part of that Victorian era, particularly in Canada, was people being more cultured and not being in the colonies and barbaric. It…

— Yannick Bisson

“What now strikes as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their complete irresponsibility;they see everything in terms of individual…

— George Orwell

There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences.

— Cary Fukunaga

the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is…

— Anonymous

The twentieth century belongs to Canada.

— Wilfrid Laurier

“Our truest and best American antiquity, as the Dominion History of the Union insisted, was the nineteenth century, whose household virtues and modest industries…

— Robert Charles Wilson

“Nineteenth-century America was gone; twentieth-century America was alien. “All that I thought American in a true sense is gone, and I see nothing but…

— Edith Wharton

“...the Midwest is coping with a twenty-first-century problem [globalization] with a nineteenth-century political and social structure [relying on state and city solutions rather than…

— Richard C. Longworth