“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
“Well, everyone's crazy these days, Dr. Singh. Adolescent sanity is so twentieth century.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“In other words, by 2100, the entire planet could look like Europe at the turn of the twentieth century, at least in… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Hayek became in his later years the dominant intellectual influence of the last quarter of the twentieth century. — Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky Copy Share Image
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
And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there… — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
“What did priests, rabbis and muftis discover in the twentieth century that can be mentioned in the same breath as antibiotics, computers… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The reason Ataturk, Kemal Ataturk was and is so highly reputed, is he was attempting to modernize… That’s not the right word.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“The beauty of the twentieth century is the charm of the hospital, the grace of the cemetery, of consumption and emaciation. I… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
There's a strange myth of Anglo-Saxonism. When the University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson, for example, its law school offered… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
At the turn of the twentieth century, board games were becoming increasingly commonplace in middle-class homes. In addition, more and more inventors… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
“...the self in the twentieth century is a voracious nought which expands like the feeding vacuole of an amoeba seeking to nourish… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress… — Allen Newell Copy Share Image
I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
What's clarity like? Try to remember that funny feeling inside your head when you had math problems too difficult to solve: the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
I find it strange that - at least in my take on it - the people who are the most alarmed about… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
It remained for the twentieth century to discover that locked within the atom is the energy of the sun itself. For this… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
Since ancient times, the left side has stood for the side of the unconscious or the unknown; the right side, by contrast,… — Jean Gebser 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
Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language. — Jerome Kern Copy Share Image
“In the second half of the twentieth century humankind almost obliterated itself in an argument about production methods.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it. — Helen Reddy Copy Share Image
The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
“I mean, this was the second half of the twentieth century, for pity’s sake, and they still saw communism as the road… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
The twentieth century saw the emergence of a Churchless Mission and a Missionless Church — Eddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy. — Charles W. Pickering Copy Share Image
As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics… — Robert A. Dahl Copy Share Image
Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
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. — Nigel Melville Copy Share Image
Judging by the pollution content of the atmosphere, I believe we have arrived at the late twentieth century. — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
