#century

The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him. ↗

— Aharon Appelfeld

#also #become #besides #biography #cannot

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

#down #entirely #false #generation #illusion

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#central #century #condition #doubt #human

Solidarity was the best thing which happened in the 20th century. ↗

— Mikhail Saakashvili

#best #century #happened #solidarity #thing

To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#century #change #clear #climate #climate change

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#century #civilization #contemplate #daring #energy

Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#also #area #around #century #democracy

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#complete #flop #half #second #twentieth

The hope of Internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the Internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict Internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done. ↗

— Peter Singer

#accept #access #back #century #done

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#almost #art #beauty #bourgeois #century