Quotes of: Nineteenth-century Keyword

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

Werner Herzog

To the men and women who changed Cheryl Hersha's life, she was a continuation of the research that had first been conducted in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Dr. Morton Prince. He encountered a woman named Miss Beauchamp, a nurs...

Secret Weapons: How Two Sisters Were Brainwashed To Kill For Their Country

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

Douglas Rushkoff

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

Susan George

…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.

Wild Enlightenment: The Borders of Human Identity in the Eighteenth Century the Borders of Human Identity in the Eighteenth Century

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!

Roger Corman

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

Norman Mailer

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

Ralph Adams Cram

In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.

Leon Panetta

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.

Gilbert Gottfried

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.

Annie Besant

For me, it's important to build good partnerships rather than score centuries. Once, you have those partnerships, you will also get centuries.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

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.

John Berger

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.

Joschka Fischer

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.

Martin Jacques

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.

Ariel Winter

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...

Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception

In reality the puritans and the humanists were quite often the same people.

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century: Excluding Drama

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

End the Fed

If birds can fend for themselves, it means there’s hope for our tomorrow.

Cybersex: A Nightmare of the 21st Century: The Rebirth of Armageddon