Century Quotes - Page 2

Helvetica was a real step from the 19th century typeface... We were impressed by that because it was more neutral, and neutralism was a word that we loved. It should be neutral. It shouldn't have a meaning in itself. The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface.

Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic.

I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century.

No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21st century. Will they be dangerous? Possibly. So I suggest we put a chip in their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts.

To be happy you have to fulfill your nature. That's what Aristotle taught so many centuries ago, that the road to happiness isn't to go drink more or consume more. The road to happiness is to fully develop your abilities, and then apply them to do good.

The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.

to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world.

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century.

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.

I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks.

I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.

A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.

The true meaning of Christmas is actually centuries of gullibility.

A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.

Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.

By far the greatest discovery of all the centuries is the power of thought.

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.