Century Quotes - Page 13

18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.

What Galileo and Newton were to the seventeenth century, Darwin was to the nineteenth.

I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.

Beatles was 20th-century folksong in the framework of capitalism; they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to communicate within that framework.

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century

Truth takes no account of centuries.

As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.

Nearly every problem has been solved by someone, somewhere. The challenge of the 21st century is to find out what works and scale it up.

Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.

As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.

The 60s undoubtedly were the most turbulent years of the century.

We could do something set in the 21st century, where I travel around to lots of different places and we talk to different ethnicities and lots of different racial and religious minorities, so it's not just the black-and-white America; it hasn't been that since the '90s.

The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.

I see the collapse of the Soviet Union as a great tragedy of the XX century.

I would argue [princess] Margaret is the tragic figure of the century.

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.

The French, the Italians, the Germans, the Spanish and the English have spent centuries killing each other.

I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.

Fidel Castro is one of the most inspiring leaders of the 20th century.

It was not till toward the end of the thirteenth century that the prose romances began to appear.

Tis hard to find a whole age to imitate, or what century to propose for example.

At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as complacently as in the Middle Ages.

Direct thought is not an attribute of feminity. In this, women are now centuries behind man.

I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.