Twentieth Quotes

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How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh . . . And the same thing is happening to my generation.

We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.

If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism.

By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.

It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.

Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.

Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.

Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.

It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world history as Lenin.

The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.

History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.

In Charleston, more than elsewhere, you get the feeling that the twentieth century is a vast, unconscionable mistake.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations–great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles and refrigerators in the sky.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.

Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.

Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends?

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.

The chief business of seventeenth-century philosophy was to reckon with seventeenth-century science... the chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

There is one fault that I must find With the twentieth century. And I'll put it in a couple of words; Too adventury. What I'd like would be some nice dull monotony If anyone's gotony.

No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.

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

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before

The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century.

As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life.

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

We may be living in the twentieth century, in resplendent sophistication. But deep down, most of us find ourselves still in the Stone Age of superstition.

The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its material limitations.

The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.