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"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century." »Dan Quayle
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"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
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"Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century." »Elie Wiesel, Chicago Sun-Times, November 5, 2001
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"We are in the 21st century. what are the kings or the queens doing in this century. They must remain in the past!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man." »Henry Wallace
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"What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century. they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don't know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing." »Andrew Schneider
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"[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century. but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand." »Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)
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"The way he's swinging the bat, he won't get a hit until the 20th century." »Jerry Coleman
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"The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century." »Bertrand Russell, Playboy Interview - March 1963
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"If what we said cannot go beyond the century we live in, it means that we have said nothing. Let us say something for all the centuries!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century." »Alfred Edward Perlman
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"In the 20th century. specialisation has become the counterfeit of brilliance." »Richard Gordon
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"Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century." »Dame Edna Everage, In a television interview with Joan Rivers
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"The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century." »William Lyon Phelps
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"(Kenneth) Star...(has) done what I could not do in a quarter century. make pornography more widely available." »Larry Flint, on the evidence against Pres Bill Clinton
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"Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago" »Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
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"Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century." »F.W. Lawvere
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"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." »Alvin Toffler
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"There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(...); the other was the fact that the century would end." »Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
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"Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century. were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war." »Isaac Asimov
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"It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought. Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought. Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves." »Longfellow
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"Perhaps we are wiser, less foolish and more far-seeing than we were two hundred years ago. But we are still imperfect in all these things, and since the turn of the century it has been remarked that neither wisdom nor virtue have increased as rapidly as the need for both." »Joseph Wood Krutch
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"I have been called the most powerful woman in the world, but I have on occasion lacked even the power of speech, because although we have crossed the threshold into a new century. there are still too many questions for which we have no answers." »Madeleine K. Albright, Farewell Remarks at U.S. Department of State; January 19, 2001; Washington, DC
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"Shouldn't someone tag Mr Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother." »Ronald Reagan
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"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century. tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"I believe that to meet the challenge of the next century. human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind." »His Holiness the Dalai Lama, speech? in 1994
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"Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century. the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer." »Kedar Joshi
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