Quotes About Century

It was a kind of sin, certainly, to forget—but it was not easy to remember, especially when names changed, languages changed. A century-old name held that century; when replaced, a hundred years were wiped out at one stroke. Amnesia set it; reality itself, being metamorphic, was affected.

Living in the second half of the twentieth century, I realized, confers no automatic protection against unwise or even dangerous drugs and methods. Each age has had to undergo its own special nostrums. (Chapter 1)

The horror of the twentieth century was the size of each new event and the paucity of its reverberation

The patterns of a century ago may be a harbinger of what we are facing now. In many ways, the megathreats of today are worse than the threats of a century ago.

This is the biggest lot of abolitionist trash I ever saw." "No it isn't," I said. "That book wasn't even written until a century after slavery was abolished." "Then why the hell are they still complaining about it?

In the thirteenth century, however, a really great scientific man appeared, who may be said to herald the dawn of modern science in Europe. This man was Roger Bacon. He

The U.S. has unthinkingly embarked upon a neoimperial policy that must involve us in virtually every great war of the coming century--and wars are the death of republics. If we continue on this course of reflexive interventions, enemies will one day answer our power with the weapon of the weak-terror, and eventually cataclysmic terrorism on U.S. soil.

The saga of their lives and the dynasty they would establish was also the story of a century of American capitalism. The three brothers had purchased Purdue Frederick back in the 1950s. "It was a much smaller company, originally," Kathe said. "It was a small family business.

In the twentieth century, power announced itself. In the twenty-first, the surest way to spot real power is by its understatement.

Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.

To do so would have created too much disillusionment. More importantly for the Bush administration, it would have undermined plans to implement the Project for a New American Century which ignores the sensibilities of all outsiders.

I do not accept history as determinism. I embrace history as possibility [where] we can demystify the evil in this perverse fatalism that characterizes the neoliberal discourse in the end of this century.

When a society pretends to even a shred of civility — and in the bourgeois century, most societies did — it is hard to predict just where or when oppositional humor will overstep the bounds of propriety or of the law.