Twentieth century Quotes

“Adolescent sanity is so twentieth century”

— John Green

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

— Marshall McLuhan

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

— Bill Henson

“The natural role of the twentieth-century man is anxiety.”

— Norman Mailer

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

— John Charles Polanyi

Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Muriel Spark

The twentieth century belongs to Canada.

— Wilfrid Laurier

With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act…

— Ralph Adams Cram

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

— Neil Armstrong

“In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America---and nowhere else was there such a deep…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“The twentieth century was the Science Fiction Century. Science fiction affected everything, and we now live in a science fiction world.”

— Charles N. Brown

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century.

— John Rothenstein

“But it remains the case that, on the level of consumption, the preeminence of the twentieth century was indisputable: nothing.”

— Michel Houellebecq

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

— Pope Leo XIII

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

— Helen Hayes

In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it…

— Ruth Glick

“until the last quarter of the twentieth century, racially explicit policies of federal, state, and local governments defined where whites and African…

— Richard Rothstein

Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of…

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it…

— Anonymous

“writers all had drinking problems in the twentieth century, and once she got the $1,080 check, she was obviously a writer and…

— Eve Babitz

The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our…

— Neil Postman

Although the patriarchal ego prides itself on being reasonable, the twentieth century has been anything but the Age of Reason. In our…

— Marion Woodman

We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn,…

— Margaret Mead

Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to…

— Ellwood Patterson Cubberley

A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story…

— Kurt Vonnegut

There was also a national policy, which as a child I didn't know anything about. In 1924 the first major immigration law…

— Noam Chomsky

It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R.…

— Randall Balmer

The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth…

— Alister E. McGrath

There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous…

— Bruno Walter

Like twentieth-century Iran, the remnant of the Persian Empire, Ethiopia under Haile Selassie attempted to preserve the absolutist state throught an accommodation…

— Haile Selassie

“Never before in history has such a sweeping fervor for freedom expressed itself in great mass movements which are driving down the…

— Kwame Nkrumah

“Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“For at the beginning of the twentieth century, the nation had been struggling to find its way. Terror had raged, a second…

— Howard Blum

“This daunting and wondrous century is throwing open basic questions the twentieth century thought it had answered. Our questions are intimate and…

— Krista Tippett

“When I came out into the outside room again, I saw her shoe still lying there, where it had come off in…

— Cornell Woolrich

“Citizens, the nineteenth century is grand, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then there will be nothing more like old history.…

— Victor Hugo

“At this time, the cusp of the modern age, the hinge of the nineteenth century, had a plebiscite been taken amongst all…

— Angela Carter

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

— Francis Schaeffer