Century Quotes - Page 6

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.

For centuries women have been saying many of the things we are saying today and which we have often thought of as new.

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

Aging will create the music of the coming century.

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

Women have been kicking ass for centuries.

Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.

The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terrorists are exploiting those centuries-old problems to accomplish their own objectives that have nothing to do whatsoever with the interests of Chechnya.

In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.

If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before

Socialism has been a great tragedy this century.

I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.

Gandhi: Ninny of the 20th Century.

The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.

In the last century, everybody was singing lower.

The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, will be its knowledge, workers, and their productivity.

Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.

Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline.

WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius.

The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century.

The Papacy was corrupt for whole centuries: especially from about 880 to 1050 and (with a short decent pontificate at rare intervals) 1290 to about 1660. No 'primacy' in any other organized religion has so disgraceful a record.