Century Quotes - Page 16

It’s time for a 21st-century abolitionist movement in the U.S and around the world.

I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.

Before science, before the eighteenth century, religion answered the questions, and so in the nineteenth century for instance there was a real jostling between science and religion over the truth and this is why Darwin was so controversial.

For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.

I am always fascinated when people talk about 'the forging of a nation'. Most nations are forgeries, perpetrated in the last century or so.

Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!

The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.

What I love about making albums in the 21st century is that so few people buy albums! I can make an album without any commercial concerns whatsoever.

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

Paradigm shifts aren't always obvious when you're in the middle of one. Danny Kennedy makes a compelling case for why solar power is the crucial energy technology of the 21st century.

They've been stealing mortals away for centuries, but they can't have you.

If what we said cannot go beyond the century we live in, it means that we have said nothing. Let us say something for all the centuries!

Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope.

For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.

Its a very 18th-century thing to have a book broken into several volumes.

Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.

There's always been a women's movement this century!

Sustaining growth is the century's big challenge.

So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis that chickens cackled all the time and eggs came out of the back of them.

The workers and peasants must, as quickly as possible, seize everything that was created by them over many centuries and use it for their own interests.

My history in show business spans over a quarter of a century, and I have seen many people in the industry struggle with coming out, only to find much more success after they finally did.

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

I'm a Red Tory. To get a fix on this category, you have to go back to the 19th century. The Tories were the ones who believed that those in power had a responsibility to the community, that money should not be the measure of all things.

his voice was centuries old

War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.