Robert Kennedy Quotes

America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II.

Russia was the last to leave the 19th century and the most rapid to enter the mandates of the 20th century. It was not an evolution. It was not a slow process.

We live in an age where the rate of change has been colossal. Colossal. Almost every week there's some transformation of some kind, whether technological or political or scientific, whatever. And I think it's bewildering to human beings to live in a time when they can't take anything as fixed - when everything is shifting and changing all the time.

I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.

You do have a modicum of peace of mind here, but it's as unsettled as any other place.

I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.

I came into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will.

The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

This war on terrorism is going to continue for an indefinite period of time.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn't exist. TV didn't exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

People are looking for stability in a shaky world. They want something they can get hold of that's firm and sure and an anchor in the midst of all of this instability in which they're living.

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

A week is a long time in politics.

All that is solid melts into air. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify.

Every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

A week is a long time in politics. A month is an eternity.

It is not new and it is not order.

This generation and the one to come will not see the end in fact of the Great War, so far as our economic and social problems are concerned…. the Great War broke all business conditions away from their past moorings and left the world's affairs adrift in a stormy sea without compass or rudder.