Century Quotes - Page 17

[Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste.

Comandante Fidel Castro is the greatest revolutionary of the 20th Century, bar none.

Much more than a 20th-century village storyteller, Cees Nooteboom stands as an impressive and inimitable voice among contemporary writers.

Autocratic leadership existed in Russia for many centuries, changing only its ideological colors and method of legitimization.

If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for better or worse, as it is in our nature to do.

In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.

One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?

The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left.

the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.

I understand the power of the internet, but I can't say that I'm there. I'm old-fashioned and living in a different century. I don't know. I just don't really understand the craze of it.

In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.

We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

I'll just say, you know, over the course of the last quarter century I've learned a lot.

Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—” “So has the plague.

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

I think every period - except for the 14th century, or something - has some merits.

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'

This web of time--the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries--embrace every posibility.

The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every" possibility. We do not exist in most of them. In some you exist and not I, while in others I do, and you do not, and in yet others both of us exist.

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century song as being a bunch of forms to adapt and reconfigure.

In many respects fascism not only is here but has been here for nearly a century. For what we call liberalism--the refurbished edifice of American Progressivism--is in fact a descendant and manifestation of fascism.

I am a child of the 21st century.

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.