I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.
If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.
We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.
…Mellor’s statement is extremist in two directions: human civilization is in imminent peril, and only one solution will work. I doubt both these formulations, and almost every fiction I have encountered that depends upon them.
Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform. They fit this century - they combine Art and business!
Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.
The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.
In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.
In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.
I don't know if I change my act from century to century. Sometimes I'm onstage doing imitations and references to people who have been dead for 50 years.
Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see whether India need blush at the comparison.
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.
If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.
I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The 21st century will be quite unlike the preceding two centuries, in which power was located in Europe and the U.S., and the rest of the world consisted of mere supplicants and bit players.
Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.
Female empowerment really is important to me. I'm a big nerd of the books from the 15th Century and 16th Century, when the men had all the power and the women had none of it.
I see the last two millennia as laid out in columns, like a reverse ledger sheet. It's as if I'm standing at the top of the twenty-first century looking downwards to 2000. Future centuries float as a gauzy sheet stretching over to the left. I also se...