#century

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#century #hard #i #me #music

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#century #child #darkness #degradation #great

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring. ↗

— Samuel P. Huntington

#certainly #civilization #decline #dominant #into

For those of us who have lived abroad and seen our nation in a highly competitive 21st century, and kind of see where this world is going - unless we are able to strengthen our core, we're going to see the end of the American century. And that is totally unacceptable. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#able #abroad #american #american century #century

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#century #ever #great #into #made

A century of convulsive change leaves huge demographic gouge marks. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#change #convulsive #demographic #huge #leaves

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#century #could #done #fruition #i

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer. ↗

— David Antin

#debates #entertainer #entertainment #greece #paradoxical

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing. ↗

— Art Spiegelman

#best #best way #century #comics #doing

In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#able #art #big #called #century