Century Quotes - Page 33

• A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.

  Joel Bakan

  Real, People, Half

  Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Men, Years, Long

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1900). “Tributes and miscellany”

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• The issue [Israeli-Palestinian conflict], already lasting more than half a century, has brought deep suffering to the Palestinian people and remains an important reason of extended turbulence in the Middle East region.

  Xi Jinping

  Issues, People, Suffering

  "China Rebukes Israel Ahead of Netanyahu Visit". edition.cnn.com. May 07, 2013.

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• Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite much pubilicity to the contrary, was he a particularly clever or even wise one. But he was a great man, perhaps the gratest Canada has produced in this century.

  Peter Brimelow

  Wise, Clever, Men

  Peter Brimelow (1988). “The patriot game: Canada and the Canadian question revisited”, Key Porter Books, [1988]

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• Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.

  Jack Vance

  Book, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal antireligionism which animated so much of nineteenth-century Continental liberalism. ... What distinguishes the liberal from the conservative here is that, however profound his own spiritual beliefs, he will never regard himself as entitled to impose them on others and that for him the spiritual and the temporal are different sphere which ought not to be confused.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Spiritual, Respect, Confused

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• Over a wide field of our economy it is still the better course to rely on the nineteenth century's "hidden hand" than to thrust clumsy bureaucratic fingers into its sensitive mechanism. In particular, we cannot afford to damage its mainspring, freedom of competitive enterprise.

  John James Cowperthwaite

  Hands, Fields, Damage

  Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 133), March 30, 1962.

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• Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.

  Gianfranco Fini

  Leader, Political, Greatest Political

  Interview with Alberto Statera published in La Stampa, April 1994.

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• A prolonged and massive increase in aggregate wealth per capita has taken place over several centuries.

  Robert Gilpin

  Taken, Wealth, Increase

  Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.100, Princeton University Press

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• Toward the end of his life, Gödel feared that he was being poisoned, and he starved himself to death. His theorem is one of the most extraordinary results in mathematics, or in any intellectual field in this century. If ever potential mental instability is detectable by genetic analysis, an embryo of someone with Kurt Gödel's gifts might be aborted.

  Brian L. Silver

  Intellectual, Analysis, Might

  Brian L. Silver (2000). “The Ascent of Science”, p.506, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The greatest trick the rich - and their cheerleaders on the right - ever pulled was convincing the world that class didn't exist. Out here in the real world, it is more real and more rigid than it has been for a century.

  Johann Hari

  Real, Class, World

  "Britain - a caste society?". JohannHari.com, January 29, 2006.

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• There will always be people like me, who believe that to ripple the pages of a printed book is a special experience, one that through the centuries has taken millions from the darkness into the light.

  Quintin Jardine

  Believe, Book, Taken

  "The Kindle threat". Quintin Jardine's blog, September 29, 2010.

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• All we can say is that, as the result of a process which went on from the fourth century to about the eighth, a standard type of text was produced, which is found in the vast majority of the manuscripts that have come down to us. At least ninety-six per cent of the extant manuscripts of the Greek New Testament are later than the eighth century; and of those only a handful preserve traces of the other types of text which were in existence before the adoption of the standard text, and out of which it was created.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Adoption, Greek, Six

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. IV, From manuscript To Print, p. 39, 1949.

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• The 20th century peatlands ditching in Finland was the worst human environmental destruction action in Europe.

  Pentti Linkola

  Europe, Environmental, Ditching

  "Can Life Prevail?". Book by Pentti Linkola, 2004.

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• It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that road has been made since the turn of the twentieth century, and a large fraction of it since the midpoint of the century. Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines.

  Allen Newell

  Plato, Taught Us, Space

  "Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry: Symbols and Search". Communications of the ACM 19 (3), (p. 125), March 1976.

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• The 'size' of science has doubled steadily every 15 years. In a century this means a factor of 100. For every single scientific paper or for every single scientist in 1670, there were 100 in 1770, 10,000 in 1870 and 1,000,000 in 1970.

  John Ziman

  Mean, Years, Paper

  "The Force of Knowledge: The Scientific Dimension of Society". Book by John Ziman, p. 56-57, 1976.

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• In Las Vegas, people seem to believe, the prosperity spawned by tourism and gaming can make them whole, financially and spiritually. Las Vegas now melds fun, work, and wealth, showing a path toward the brightest vistas of the post-industrial world. It is the first city of the twenty-first century.

  Hal Rothman

  Fun, Believe, Vegas

  Hal Rothman, Mike Davis (2002). “The Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• Unquenchable is a worthy successor to Cadillac Desert that ably demonstrates how our most valuable resource is being squandered, ignored, and flushed away. Although it reminds us that water is indeed finite, Unquenchable clearly shows us the solutions to the greatest threat of the 21st century are limited only by politics and greed.

  Terry Tamminen

  Water, Greed, Desert

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• The morality of the 21st century will depend on how we respond to this simple but profound question: Does every human life have equal moral value simply and merely because it is human?

  Wesley J. Smith

  Simple, Profound, Doe

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• The twentieth century saw the emergence of a Churchless Mission and a Missionless Church

  Eddie Gibbs

  Church, Saws, Missions

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• Lemberger's stories are marvelous compounds of scholarship, imagination and empathy. Brought to life with rich historical detail, these biblical women, sidelined and silenced for centuries, prove to be audacious, utterly relatable, and spellbinding companions.

  Michelle Huneven

  Biblical, Imagination, Empathy

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• The real origin of science fiction lay in the seventeeth-century novels of exploration in fabulous lands. Therefore Jules Verne's story of travel to the moon is not science fiction because they go by rocket but because of where they go. It would be as much science fiction if they went by rubber band.

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, Moon, Land

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• The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain to this day without parallel. Their age is one of the best and most hopeful episodes in the life of mankind.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Honesty, Hopeful, Intellectual

  Isaiah Berlin, Henry Hardy (2001). “The Power of Ideas”, p.52, Princeton University Press

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• Well, it's such a record that you can only compare it with Bob Beamon's long-jump world record set in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico. At that time it seemed that it would never be broken. Tendulkar's 50 Test centuries is one such records which doesn't look like being surpassed

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Long, Broken, Looks

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• Back in the twentieth century, we thought that robots would have taken over by this time, and, in a way, they have. But robots as a race have proved disappointing. Instead of getting to boss around underlings made of steel and plastic with circuitry and blinking lights and tank treads, like Rosie the maid on The Jetsons, we humans have outfitted ourselves with robotic external organs. Our iPods dictate what we listen to next, gadgets in our cars tell us which way to go, and smartphones finish our sentences for us. We have become our own robots.

  Mary Norris

  Taken, Light, Race

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