Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams. — Arthur Compton Copy Share Image
“Being gay was a bit like the Olympics: It disappeared in ancient times, and then they brought it back in the twentieth… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it. — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“The mass hallucination of the twentieth century is this: that all these national governments, which each year kill or threaten way more… — Tyler Mcmahon 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
I don't know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
The greatest leaders in fighting for an integrated America in the twentieth century were in the Democratic Party. The fact is, it… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
One of the most intensely unlikeable figures of the twentieth century, fanatical anti-Semite, enemy of labour unions and proud recipient of medals… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure.… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for theeighteenth century reader, the most… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Humanism is an overemphasis on human worth and ability, leading man to glorify himself instead of God...While its historical forms may vary,… — David Fisher Copy Share Image
There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
“Science, the largest religion of the twentieth century, had become somewhat tarnished by images of exploding space shuttles, crack babies, and a… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
“The political history of the twentieth century is the story of greater and more direct political participation. And success kept expanding democracy's… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
“Because in the late twentieth century, you couldn't seriously ask other people to think that you believed in honor and truth, and… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human… — James Joll Copy Share Image
The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
Of course, if there should be war, it wouldn't last long - not in the twentieth century; and no one wants it.… — Marie Van Vorst Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The twentieth century saw a professionalization of fiction writing, particularly in its second half and particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world - not… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
“...current Muslim memories and anger about the Crusades are a twentieth-century creation, prompted in part by 'post-World War I British and French… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
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