Twentieth Quotes

The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century.

I played ten injury-free years between the ages of 12 and 22. Then, suddenly, it seemed like I was allergic to the twentieth century.

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

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.

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

This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.

To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.

Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.

The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.

The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.

It's the Twentieth Century ... no more miracles.

They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century.

While it is a cause for regret that Fischer did not continue to produce scintillating games, he perhaps had a greater impact on chess than any other twentieth century player

Judging by the pollution content of the atmosphere, I believe we have arrived at the late twentieth century.

It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century.

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.

The twentieth century was marked by two broad trends: the regulation of capitalism and the deregulation of democracy. Both experiments overreached.

The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything.

I've never regretted I was born too soon. I'm proud to be a child of the twentieth century. I'm satisfied to join its ranks on our side and fight for a new world.

Hayek became in his later years the dominant intellectual influence of the last quarter of the twentieth century.

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.

I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.

[Heisenberg's seminal 1925 paper initiating quantum mechanics marked] one of the great jumps—perhaps the greatest—in the development of twentieth century physics.

At the end of the day, with all due respect, the Jews are the ultimate victims of the twentieth century.

The world is a colony of the US. The twentieth century was the US's century.

The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

No specific technology. My guess is that it was the instinct always to go to maximum scale. Great Britain kept much more of a small shop mindset well into the twentieth century, for instance.

At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.

Everything everyone thinks they know about [Mother Teresa] is false. It must be the single most successful emotional con job of the twentieth century.

Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that's still with us today, which is that the main purpose of public education is closing achievement gaps.

In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted.

The twentieth century saw the emergence of a Churchless Mission and a Missionless Church

By the end of the Twentieth Century, taxation will be reduced to a minimum, the entire world will be open to trade, and there will be no need of a standing army.