Quotations
Quotes:
The century on which we are entering - the century which will come out of this war - can be and must be the century of the common man. (Speech, 8 May 1942)
View quotes by Henry Wallace
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
View quotes by David Hare
The scientists say that it's going to be five to ten degrees warmer by the end of this century, the 21st century, than it is today.
View quotes by Peter Barnes
"I am always fascinated when people talk about 'the forging of a nation'. Most nations are forgeries, perpetrated in the last century or so."
View quotes by Neal Ascherson
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn
View quotes by Alvin Toffler
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
View quotes by Galbraith
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
View quotes by J G Ballard
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
View quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century.
View quotes by Daniel Boorstin
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
View quotes by Isaac Singer
The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
View quotes by Adlai Stevenson
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
View quotes by Pope John Paul II
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
View quotes by Douglas Macarthur
The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
View quotes by Norman Mailer
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
View quotes by Thomas Mann
Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.
View quotes by Marshall McLuhan
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
View quotes by Margaret Mead
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
View quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge
I played ten injury-free years between the ages of 12 and 22. Then, suddenly, it seemed like I was allergic to the twentieth century.
View quotes by Nigel Melville
I have concluded the history of this century and put the finishing touches to it and not another word will I write. [Last words]
View quotes by David Chytraus
