Century Quotes

It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.

As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'

On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.

It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake.

No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.

For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.

After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.

The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.

The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade.

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century.

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property.

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.

Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.

Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch.

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth.

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.

I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Any team can have a bad century.