20th century Quote by Stephen Bayley

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

It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now…

— Evelyn Waugh

The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being…

— Peter Robinson

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

— Wallace Stevens

I'm sick of traditional values. If you want to stay in the last century, fine. But don't drag everyone back with you.

— Anonymous

In my opinion, all previous advances in the various lines of invention will appear totally insignificant when compared with those which the present century…

— Charles Holland Duell

What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly...timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.

— Brandon Sanderson

I am troubled that sometimes in our political discourse we spend all of our time focused on the challenges of the next century rather…

— Marco Rubio

Amongst the many definitions, there is one that may be generally agreed upon: modernity is the epoch in which simply being modern became a…

— Gianni Vattimo

If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs, our achievements and even…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

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

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

“Future historians, pondering changes in British society from the 1980s onwards, will struggle to account for the following curious fact. Although British business enterprises…

— Stefan Collini