Century Quotes - Page 5

the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)

The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.

How do you know that nonsense isn't a good thing? If human nonsense had been nurtured and developed for centuries, just as intelligence has, then perhaps something extraordinarily precious could have come from it.

FGM breaches all human rights and has no place in any 21st century society.

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.

Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.

Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.

In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar.

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.

It's no wonder we know how to dress; we've spent centuries in closets.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

An 18th century brain, in a 21st century head.

The way humanity manages or mismanages its nature-based assets, including pollinators, will in part define our collective future in the 21st century.

The twentieth century belongs to Canada.

The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.

Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.

I think the next century will be the century of complexity.

Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.

Kindness Day? Kindness Day? Do you suppose if we were kind and enthusiastic for centuries uninterruptedly, that someone would create 'Nasty, Indifferent Day'?

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine.

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.