Century Comparison Quotes

In the Christian world, as you remember, Christianity is in the 21st century, Islam is in the 15th century. I don't mean to say that Islam is backward; I mean to say that there are certain experiences that it hasn't gone through. Christianity had the great religious wars of the 17th century. Islam, fortunately for the Muslims, did not have that. Christianity worked out a system of toleration. Islam was always more tolerant of Christendom.

With the World War II era, there's so much written material to draw on. When you go back to the 14th century, you have to imagine more.

The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.

I'll take you to Mickey D's," said Sean. "I'll buy you a hamburger." Annie was not thrilled. Sean's offer did not compare to offers made in other centuries. "And fries," Sean said. "And a vanilla milkshake." Annie remained unthrilled. "Okay, okay. You can have a Big Mac." Romance in my century, she thought, is pitiful.

Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see whether India need blush at the comparison.

On the basis of my historical experience, I fully believe that mathematics of the 25th century will be as different from that of today as the latter is from that of the 16th century.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

Each century believes its fight to be weightier than that of all others preceding it.