The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Twentieth-century philosophy is not unique in its ability to confuse puzzles with problems.” — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
“The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century. — John Rothenstein Copy Share Image
The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“Going out? It seems so twentieth century. Do people really still do such a thing?” — Dave Franklin Copy Share Image
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides… — Bing Crosby Copy Share Image
That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is… — Mark Morris Copy Share Image
'In the nineteenth century, we beat the British more than once,' Afghans often told me. 'In the twentieth century, we beat the… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Once Europe's colonial empires were sent into deep decline, thanks to World War II, America became globalization's primary replicating force, integrating Asia… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
“the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men can find themselves standing… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it. — David Novak Copy Share Image
“throbbed into silence… “And that’s the way it was—goodbye, wonderful and terrible Twentieth” — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty? — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
“But it remains the case that, on the level of consumption, the preeminence of the twentieth century was indisputable: nothing.” — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century. — John Rothenstein Copy Share Image
“The twentieth century was the Science Fiction Century. Science fiction affected everything, and we now live in a science fiction world.” — Charles N. Brown Copy Share Image
“In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America---and nowhere else was there such a deep… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language,… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
“THE TWENTIETH CENTURY was a period defined by the struggle for individual political, economic, and personal liberty against various forms of oppression,… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
I don't know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that the Great Lakes region will be at the center of an internally-focused North American economy when the hallucination of… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
