#century

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission. ↗

— James Buchan

#been #carriages #catastrophic #century #electricity

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago. ↗

— James Buchan

#ago #answer #belated #britain #british

After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#century #doing #ever #greater #half

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#believe #business #century #i #i believe

I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about. ↗

— Jung Chang

#accept #because #century #chinese #come

Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#along #big #books #came #century

I love stories that give me a perspective on how easy American life has become in the 21st century. ↗

— Hope Davis

#american #american life #become #century #easy

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

#am #century #come #glad #horrors

The 20th century taught us how far unbridled evil can and will go when the world fails to confront it. It is time that we heed the lessons of the 20th century and stand up to these murderers. It is time that we end genocide in the 21st century. ↗

— Allyson Schwartz

#21st century #century #confront #end #evil

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#centuries #century #changes #conception #education