Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th…

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

— T. S. Eliot

The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity.

— Leland Ryken

Solaristics, wrote Muntius, is a substitute for religion in the space age. It is faith wrapped in the cloak of science; contact, the goal…

— Anonymous

For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for…

— Pauline Kael

Art is not a substitute religion: it is a religion (in the true sense of the word: 'binding back', 'binding' to the unknowable, transcending…

— Gerhard Richter

If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many…

— Alan Moore

I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They…

— Elie Wiesel

Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, 'Earth' meaning the riches of the earth, simple…

— Lech Walesa

If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you…

— Zygmunt Bauman

That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small little industry.…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

— Stephen Ambrose

I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.

— Alex Spanos

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce…

— Barack Obama

Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future…

— Robert Kiyosaki

I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.

— Michael Bennet