Century Quotes

He who finds a new path is a pathfinder, even if the trail has to be found again by others; and he who walks far ahead of his contemporaries is a leader, even though centuries pass before he is recognized as such.

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.

The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills.Everythi ng else will become obsolete over time.

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.

A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

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

The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines are spurred on as result of a global oversupply of grain staples.

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

We all lived in this century, I didn't live in this century.

Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.

Not whether we accomplish anarchism today, tomorrow, or within ten centuries, but that we walk towards anarchism today, tomorrow, and always.

By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century

Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century.

Solidarity was the best thing which happened in the 20th century.

It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.