Freedom Quote by Marguerite Yourcenar

“It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their…

— Bram Stoker

“These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it.”

— Elizabeth Kostova

“In my opinion,' he said, 'the nineteenth century is passing for everyone except us.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and I am free to stand on…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men can find themselves standing over death…

— Timothy Snyder

“century: “As man imagines himself to be, so shall he be, and he is that which he imagines.”

— Sidney Rosen

“We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time.”

— Douglas Coupland

Other centuries had their driving forces. What will ours have been when men look far back to it one day? Maybe it won't be…

— Moss Hart

“centuries would yet pass before the mighty works of fifty generations of humans would decay past use. Only the declining powers of men, themselves,…

— Isaac Asimov

“...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

“Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...”

— Anonymous

The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.

— Henry A. Wallace