The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“The great novel of twentieth-century New York might be the Daily News.” — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
“How much of twentieth-century poetry, how much of my own poetry, is the cry of the damned?” — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash,… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty? — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet… — Jenna Elfman Copy Share Image
Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Ideology - that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the neccessary steadfastness and determination... Thanks to ideology,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
“Man-made death became epidemic in the twentieth century because increasingly efficient killing technologies made the extreme exercise of national sovereignty pathological.” — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
The very quality of books to read and facts to master with which the twentieth-century man is confronted encourages him to think… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
“Technology will be the main driver of this change. And, in the long run, we will neither need nor want professionals to… — Richard Susskind Copy Share Image
I've always thought photography was an art form, but it had very low appreciation in the beginning, except for some Europeans, and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as Twentieth Century Americans. We look to the history… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Never mind that from the 1600s until the late twentieth century the population the United States was 85% white, 12% black, and… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Regarding social order, [Francis] Fukuyama writes, "The systematic study of how order, and thus social capital, can emerge in spontaneous and decentralized… — Douglass North Copy Share Image
As the corporation's size and power grew, so did the need to assuage people's fears of it. The corporation suffered its first… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
“When, in the fifteenth century, some audacious mariners who had sailed from Europe discovered America, nothing seemed to justify such a venture… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
Advertisers regularly con us into believing that we genuinely need one luxury after another. We are convinced that we must keep up… — Ronald J. Sider Copy Share Image
It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, with all due respect, the Jews are the ultimate victims of the twentieth century. — Ari Shavit Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century welfare state capitalism was historically unique in that national income was split between wages and profits, labour and capital. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book. — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
“a block that had moved into the twentieth century carelessly and uncaringly—and with very limited funds.” — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, during the sixty years of the twentieth century many problems have come increasingly into the realm of acceptable public discussion. — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
“It was truly a transitional moment: There he was, at the cusp of the twentieth century, using the telephone to send a… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
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