Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. — Ross McKitrick Copy Share Image
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators. — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration. — Joe Pantoliano Copy Share Image
“Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Much more than a 20th-century village storyteller, Cees Nooteboom stands as an impressive and inimitable voice among contemporary writers. — Linda Simon Copy Share Image
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century. — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
Our ambitions as a country in the mid-20th century reflected the global dynamics in a post-World War 2 international order. — Michael Waltz Copy Share Image
The whole history of the 20th century is a history of resistance groups which are either nationalist or, in large parts of… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's clear that there has to be some play between the vitality of invention in economic life and some regulation of it,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Even into the 20th century, women were still struggling in the Western world for rights that Islam had granted women in the… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
History had been man's effort to accomodate himself to what he could not do. Amereican history in the 20th century would, more… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
One of the most influential women of the 20th century? Well, that may be overdoing it. When one thinks of really influential… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, became the first incumbent president to increase his majority in both the Senate… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Ironically, there is a history of black/Irish communion here in the states; Irish and African American brothers and sisters have often found… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I think the way design was practiced for most of the 20th century was very declarative. A designer came up with a… — Khoi Vinh Copy Share Image
“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
My teacher introduced me to this photographer Eugène Atget. He was a French photographer in the late 1800s up until 1927 in… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
When I first started to do fashion shows I didn't have the budget to hire top models so I would cast women… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
By 1940 the literacy figure for all states stood at 96 percent for whites. Eighty percent for blacks. Notice for all the… — Vin Suprynowicz Copy Share Image
The troubles of the 20th century are not unlike those of adolescence -- rapid growth beyond the ability of organizations to manage,… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
He ran a gas station down in St. Louis... No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps. — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, imprisonment of writers practically comes with the territory. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The 20th century ended with a single surviving model of human progress. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st. — David S. Rose Copy Share Image
