In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.
We wouldn't think of going to our doctor and saying 'Treat me the way doctors treated people in the 19th Century,' and yet that's what we're demanding in food production.
Freedom was the desire of our people throughout centuries. Freedom enabled our people to be owners of their destiny.
My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.
But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony.
Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the perfect place to become not someone else, but someone new.
The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.
What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.
In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.
Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.
However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.
The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.
During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.
I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go.
More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.
There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters.
A deadly sins addendum is long overdue. Life has changed since Pope Gregory the Great scribbled his initial list in the sixth century.
