This is the century of fear.
History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.
More striking still, it appeared that, if the process of concentration goes on at the same rate, at the end of another century we shall have all American industry controlled by a dozen corporations and run by perhaps a hundred men. Put plainly, we are steering a steady course toward economic oligarchy, if we are not there already.
The second half of the 20th century was a golden age of molecular biology, and it was one of the golden ages of the history of science. Molecular biology was so successful and made such a powerful alliance with the medical scientists that the two together just flourished. And they continue to flourish.
He ran a gas station down in St. Louis. . . No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century.
G. K. Chesterton was the best writer of the 20th century. He said something about everything and he said it better than anybody else.
The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.
The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.
Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city.
Aging will create the music of the coming century.
Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just as any period decays in our minds, the things of that period should decay too, and in that way they're preserved for a while in the few hearts like mine that react to them. Trying to preserve a century by keeping its relics up to date is like keeping a dying man alive by stimulants.
The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.
Nationalism and patriotism are the two most evil forces that I know of in this century or in any century and cause more wars and more death and more destruction to the soul and to human life than anything else.
It is the chief value of legend to mix up the centuries while preserving the sentiment.
One could look over the past century and ask oneself, has the increased longevity been good, bad or indifferent?
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 financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property
From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.