A Quote by Ellis Peters
One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.
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The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.
Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.
If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century, and therefore the century of the state.
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.
The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was the century of nation states, and the 21st is the century of cities and mayors.
I think the next century will be the century of complexity.
The 20th century was the century of war and blood. The 21st century is the century of dialogue.
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One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly have been the 21st.
The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
We cannot proclaim this century the African Century and then ignore the AIDS pandemic, as some political leaders are apt to do. To claim this century the African Century is to declare war on AIDS.
There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.
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The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables.
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