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21st Century Quotes

This century, in perspective.

These 21st century quotes weigh the present against the past, comparing women's rights today to earlier civil rights struggles and questioning whether old ideas of power still apply. Read more under our America quotes page.

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

Quotes by Tina Brown

The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.

Quotes by Sylvia Earle

China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it.

Quotes by Steven Rattner

One can make the case that the New York venture capital industry is rooted in the 21st century, not the 20th.

Quotes by Steve Blank

About Quotes

Many of the crises we see in the 21st century, I would argue, have their roots in the dawn of the Neolithic.

Quotes by Spencer Wells

Our defence forces and their morale symbolise the prowess of the India of the 21st century.

Quotes by Ram Nath Kovind

I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go.

Quotes by Philip Treacy

Every technological advance we've made in the 21st century and throughout the 20th has come from the United States of America.

Quotes by Phil Gramm

Feminism is the best movement that's happened in the 21st century, and it benefits everyone.

Quotes by Marilyn Minter

Ale Quotes

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.

Quotes by Leonard Slatkin

I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Quotes by Joschka Fischer

I am a child of the 21st century.

Quotes by John Shelby Spong

For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.

Quotes by Jean-Michel Jarre

The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.

Quotes by Jean-Pierre Raffarin

America Quotes

Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.

Quotes by Jay Inslee

The 21st century is a really terrible time to be a control freak.

Quotes by Jared Cohen

It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

Quotes by Ingrid Newkirk

'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.

Quotes by Ilan Stavans

We're in a 21st century, transparent and connected world.

Quotes by Guler Sabanci

American Quotes

The universities of the 21st century are going to be the smokestacks of the century.

Quotes by Gordon Gee

Frequently Asked Questions

What issues do these 21st century quotes raise?
They cover women's rights, the decline of commercial fishing, shifting global power, and comparisons between rising and slower-changing nations.
Do the quotes compare the 21st century to earlier eras?
Yes, one explicitly compares women's rights today to 20th-century civil rights, and another contrasts 21st-century thinking with 19th- and 20th-century ideas of power.
Is there a quote about the environment?
Yes, one predicts the end of commercial fishing well before the middle of the century, framing environmental change as a defining 21st-century issue.
Do any quotes compare nations directly?
One contrasts a country that has "lunged" into the 21st century with another still "lurching" toward it, highlighting uneven global progress.
Where can I read more quotes touching on modern America?
Visit our America quotes page for more perspectives on change and national identity.

Together they treat the century as a turning point still being defined by rising nations and shifting ideas. Continue with our American and About quotes pages.