It was in the 20th century that national sovereignty really ruled the roost, and the E.U. was formed to cure that. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
'Christian' used to be a throwaway word. People didn't used to use it much. People didn't start self-labeling or getting labeled Christian… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Earlier this week ... scientists announced the completion of a task that once seemed unimaginable; and that is, the deciphering of the… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
'Atlas Shrugged,' let's face it, was probably the most important novel of the 20th century that was never a film. — Albert S. Ruddy Copy Share Image
Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment.… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the… — Alan Bersin 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
Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal. His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
A stable 21st century society requires 21st century solutions not 20th century economics — Phil Harding Copy Share Image
It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now.… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Suddenly, in the early 20th century, there were thousands of men with essentially nothing to do. The farm work, as well as… — Peter Buffett 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
Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It is states that are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of millions of people and immeasurable destruction in the 20th century… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
The 20th century ended with a single surviving model of human progress. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The Battle for the Philippines was the greatest naval battle in history, judged in terms of the number of ships taking part,… — Richard Hough Copy Share Image
As the 20th century unspooled, a cultural warming melted down many frozen class characteristics. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances. — William James Copy Share Image
Well, the first thing I had to do was to read a lot. First of all, about education... and looking at education… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
The majority of people who come to America come for a better life, just like the Italians, the Jews, the Irish, and… — Marty Walsh 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
