I don't quite see the 20th century as one of chaos. But I believe in certain inevitable outcomes of a materialist nature. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth. — Avery Brundage Copy Share Image
Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of… — Wellington Mara Copy Share Image
I still would like you to feel the enthusiasm that all those people felt in the twenties and thirties, that indeed we… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. — Philip Shabecoff Copy Share Image
The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the… — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
Taking photographs is generally an act of 'looking at the object, whereas 'being seen' or 'showing' is what is most interest to… — Yasumasa Morimura Copy Share Image
As time has gone on and we're at the end of the 20th century and major publishing is a big business, yes,… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
I feel like we're between two great possibilities: we're either going to turn things around, and in this generation see the rising… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
All of Robert Caro's biographies are exceptional, in part because of Caro's fundamental ambivalence about power. He sees its necessity and use… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
Franklin Roosevelt ran on a balanced budget in 1932, and the greatest president, certainly, of the 20th century. So the idea that… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
The revolutions of my century, the 20th century - the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in… — Stephane Hessel Copy Share Image
Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Hell is out of fashion --institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The 21st century is significantly different from the 20th century. The old models will not hold anymore. More and more, we are… — Haris Pasovic Copy Share Image
I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and… — Joschka Fischer Copy Share Image
Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, 'Earth' meaning the riches of the… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
Wellington Webb was one of the most significant mayors of the latter half of the 20th century. His natural political instincts are… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Haiti, which has been the main target of US intervention throughout the 20th century, is the poorest. And Guatemala, which is maybe… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success. — Alex Spanos Copy Share Image
I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened. — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
The 20th century peatlands ditching in Finland was the worst human environmental destruction action in Europe. — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
That's a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation… — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
“More than anything else, the welfare states of the mid-20th century established the profound indecency of defining civic status as a function… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird,… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to… — Michael Arad Copy Share Image
A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century. — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
I think broadband is to the twenty-first century what electricity and electric lights were to the 20th century. — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
When you undergo a visionary experience, what you are really doing is blowing your socially conditioned, 20th century, hive mind and allowing… — Steve Kubby Copy Share Image
The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power;… — Alex Carey Copy Share Image
The 20th Century was a bloodbath, and for all the frustrations and failures of the project to unify Europe, the last five… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
