Century Quotes - Page 4

You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles and refrigerators in the sky.

Our names were made for us in another century.

I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.

The world has produced about 1 trillion barrels of oil since the start of the industry in the nineteenth century. Currently, it is thought that there are at least 5 trillion barrels of petroleum resources, of which 1.4 trillion is sufficiently developed and technically and economically accessible.

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.

The warming we've experienced in the late 20th century could just as easily be explained by small decreases in cloud cover - natural changes in the system - and have nothing to do with CO2.

Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.

In the 21st century, culture is power.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.

The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist.

No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.

We were once getting married. And I have loved you all this time- a century and a half. -Jem

A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to take off. It didn't, of course, but a lot of people thought it was going to.

In the 21st century, the database is the marketplace.

The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

He loved us personally...centuries before we were born.

We have introduced a rule of law. That never existed for centuries in this country [South Africa], especially under the apartheid regime, when the law was reduced into disrepute.

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.

Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.