Century Quotes - Page 19

Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century.

Nevertheless, during the sixty years of the twentieth century many problems have come increasingly into the realm of acceptable public discussion.

Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.

Through music we may wander where we will in time, and find friends in every century.

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasnt heard it.

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

The new markets that arise from ecological constraints will dominate the 21st century economy, and so will markets for knowledge.

It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the eighteenth century that law was not preferable to man.

It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.

Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.

The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.

I have been the creative literary mind of the century.

Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work.

There was engrained poetry and then when you look back at our history and in the 20th century, the last century, probably the greatest writers of the 20th century were Irish. It became our only weapon, was our poetry, our music.

A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.

You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.

Not only did she [Marilyn Monroe] master her own image, create it and ultimately control it, she was the subject of many of the great masters of photography of the 20th century.

After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave.

Hoyle's enduring insights into stars, nucleosynthesis, and the large-scale universe rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century astrophysics. Moreover, his theories were unfailingly stimulating, even when they proved transient.

True science is at length disencumbered of the empirical determinations which had accumulated in the course of many centuries.

Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.

One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news.

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.