Century Quotes - Page 10

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

Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.

The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.

Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.

People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature - it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.

In another couple centuries I'm sure that worldview won't even exist. There's no evidence for it.

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

India lives in several centuries at the same time.

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.

To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.

This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.

This is the century of fear.

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.

I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to tap…we’re just getting started figuring out what the rules are.

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

Unlike anything heard before. This is jazz for the 21st century.

Those terrifying verbal jungles called laws are simply such directives, accumulated, codified, and systematized through the centuries.

I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big.

There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.

...the century's most radical vice... the notion that human beings can be shoveled around like concrete.

A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.

For centuries we have been living in the society where not laws but people ruled, where there was no legal state.