20th century Quotes · Page 4

In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do.

— Mary Quant

As the 20th century unspooled, a cultural warming melted down many frozen class characteristics.

— Melvyn Bragg

Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.

— Daniel Kleppner

The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.

— Leonard Bernstein

“...the great theme of the private journal in the 20th century is sickness.”

— Alan Pauls

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.

— Cornel West

Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.

— Eric Hobsbawm

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

— Adam Hochschild

The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures…

— Howard Hodgkin

The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park,…

— James Howard Kunstler

I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half…

— Bob Colacello

“In the first decade of the 20th century, drinking rates actually increased. The advertising of alcohol in the early 20th century was…

— Charles River Editors

Given how long philosophers have been at conceptual analysis (I mean the 20th century stuff), and how many have been doing it,…

— Patricia Churchland

It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the…

— Brian Sutton-Smith

Just as we were engaged in a 20th-century Cold War against the communist Soviet Union, we too are now engaged in a…

— Michael Waltz

A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science…

— Abraham Flexner

I was named after my Jewish grandfather who left Poland early in the 20th century. What I knew from an early age…

— Morris Gleitzman

By the end of the 20th Century there will be a generation to whom it will not be injurious to read a…

— Max Nordau

Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants…

— Jared Diamond

This tough-love, winner-take-all narrative dominating policymaking is far too limited a way to think about how a complex, modern, diverse economy like…

— John Podesta

Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business…

— Peter Drucker

Practices such as arranged marriages and restrictions on girls attending school have deep roots, and changing them is a gradual process. Sometimes…

— Tina Brown

It was a different social structure. I'd go to [David] Bailey's for dinner at 10:30. There were always girls there and a…

— Manolo Blahnik

With a few exceptions like Kraftwerk, most great 20th century Western music is in some way American-based. And the great paradox of…

— Steve Erickson

I feel Aleister Crowley is a misunderstood genius of the 20th century. Because his whole thing was liberation of the person, of…

— Jimmy Page

One chronicler writes of an area of India during the end of the 20th century: Almost no-one in this slum was poor…

— Katherine Boo

The fact that you couldn't see Alfred Hitchcock's first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn't see so many of F.W.…

— Guy Maddin

At the beginning of the 20th century, before the migration began, 90 percent of all African-Americans were living in the South. By…

— Isabel Wilkerson

It's difficult not to color our perception of author's product with his personality. There are so many examples of this. What do…

— Salman Rushdie

Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment.…

— Rachel Carson

For two generations up through the mid-1980s, many thought we were losing the Cold War, even in early 1989, few believed that…

— Daniel Fried

Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.

— Jurgen Habermas

“History of India From Ancient Times to the 20th Century   by William W. Hunter”

— Anonymous

Fidel Castro is one of the most inspiring leaders of the 20th century.

— Tom Gjelten

If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles.

— Anonymous

No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.

— Diana Vreeland

Henry Kissinger is perhaps the best-known American statesman of the 20th century.

— Saul David

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

— David Hockney

The stories in our music form a special viewpoint on the story of America in the 20th Century.

— Marty Stuart