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Century Quotes

The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was the century of nation states, and the 21st is the century of cities and mayors.

Nation Empires Century 19th Century

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Religion Sex Century 20th Century

Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

London Surrounded Century Suburbs

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word.

Sense Century Word Feudalism Twelfth

The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population and industrialization had transformed much of the upper Estuary watershed.

End Human Years Population Century

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

John Lothrop Motley

Old Away Century Roman Faded Later

The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.

Architecture Book Century Oldest

Few living figures could contribute as much as Castro to our understanding of the second half of the 20th century.

Understanding Living Half Century

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

Men Right Athens Century Just Until

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

Michael Tippett

Music Time Blues Century Our Time

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

Poetry Season Grain Century

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

Great Said Two Century 20th Century

'In the nineteenth century, we beat the British more than once,' Afghans often told me. 'In the twentieth century, we beat the Russians. In the twenty-first, if we have to, we'll beat the Americans!'

William T. Vollmann

Me More Beat British Century Than

Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century.

Peter Lindbergh

Women Beginning Tool Chosen Century

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

Love Great Big Used Last Century

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

Marshall McLuhan

Art Cave Century Twentieth Century

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

Century 20th Century Most Genre

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

Caffeine Century Twentieth Century

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Reality Something Century Our Faced

History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.

History May Against Someday Century

Formed in 1967 and still performing regularly half a century later, Fairport Convention are Britain's equivalent of the Band. Unlike the latter they have maintained cordial relations.

Band Half Century Still Performing

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

Passion Real Century Servitude

Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century.

Important Movies Century 20th Century

Throughout the 19th century, Britain bought cheaply from the countries of the empire and compelled subject countries to buy our goods at high prices.

High Buy Empire Century Our Prices

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