Century Quotes - page 2

Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading. (Elihu Root)
During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms. View quote
Johannes V. Jensen
The free trade movement in the middle of the last century represents the first conscious recognition of these new circumstances and of the necessity to adapt to them. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness. View quote
Rollo May
It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. View quote
J. G. Ballard
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. View quote
M. H. Abrams
All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted. View quote
Virchand Gandhi
This planet can be a paradise in the 22nd century. View quote
E. O. Wilson
While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process. (Lawrence Lessig)
The rate of technological and human physiological change in the 20th century has been remarkable. Beyond that, a synergy between the improved technology and physiology is more than the simple addition of the two. View quote
Robert Fogel
I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago. View quote
John Templeton
Movies are one of the bad habits that have corrupted our century. They have slipped into the American mind more misinformation in one evening than the Dark Ages could muster in a decade. View quote
Ben Hecht
Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal. View quote
Sam Harris
In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices. View quote
Don DeLillo
In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment. View quote
E. L. Doctorow
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century. View quote
E. L. Doctorow
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains. (James A. Michener)
We cannot continue to have an excellence gap with the rest of the world and intend to remain the economic superpower and military superpower of the planet. That's just not going to happen, ... We're in a position where unless we take action, we'll end up being the France of the 21st century a lot of talk, but not a lot of strength behind it in terms of economic capability. View quote
Mitt Romney
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century. View quote
James Russell Lowell
It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory. In fact, some say that the only thing that quantum theory has going for it is that it is unquestionably correct. View quote
Michio Kaku
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others. View quote
Bill Gates