The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century. — John Rothenstein Copy Share Image
the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Twentieth-century philosophy is not unique in its ability to confuse puzzles with problems.” — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century… — Wendell Berry 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
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
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
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first… — Freeman Dyson 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
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 Copy Share Image
There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous… — Bruno Walter Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Ideas about the scope and meaning of freedom of speech do expand and contract with the times. At the moment, we live… — Lawrence M. Friedman Copy Share Image
Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism. — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century.” — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it. — David Novak Copy Share Image
It's been an obsession with me from childhood, the horrors of the twentieth century. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
“If humanity survives long enough to understand what he really was, they can dig him up and put on display the grandiose… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
“TULIP. As Kenneth Stewart has shown recently, there is no evidence of this acronym being used before the twentieth century.” — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“The canons of literary taste as they have hardened in the twentieth century leave little place for Rabelais.” — Roger Shattuck Copy Share Image
To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with… Oh… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
“Going out? It seems so twentieth century. Do people really still do such a thing?” — Dave Franklin Copy Share Image
Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In the late twentieth century, staying sober has become just as much an addiction as getting wasted. — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image