Century Quote by Simone Weil

The prosperity of the second half of the twentieth century was both a cause and an effect of social and scientific breakthroughs that have…

— David Bornstein

“as signs of inadequacy and weakness, they look on wealth as a source of stability and strength. Our proud hearts shrink from weakness, real…

— J.I. Packer

While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century…

— Stephen Bayley

We're at a period where our society is at the end of a cycle, where all the sudden the values that we were told…

— Jean-Marc Barr

“Not much of great value occurs or is achieved without effort.”

— Steven Redhead

“But it remains the case that, on the level of consumption, the preeminence of the twentieth century was indisputable: nothing.”

— Michel Houellebecq

In the mid-fifties, a revolution occurred and a new word entered the vocabulary of commercial art. Concept... But the change was not entirely good.…

— R. O. Blechman

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

— Russell Baker

“Value is based on perception, availability, necessity and desire.”

— Steven Redhead

“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

“If your values correspond completely with the ones prevalent in society currently, or if what you believe as your core values keep changing with…

— Dr Prem Jagyasi

The realism of failure, the romance of success.

— Mason Cooley