The world is a colony of the US. The twentieth century was the US's century. — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century.” — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act… — Ralph Adams Cram 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
History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight. — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
“until the last quarter of the twentieth century, racially explicit policies of federal, state, and local governments defined where whites and African… — Richard Rothstein 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
These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century. — Miguel de Unamuno 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 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
“The mass hallucination of the twentieth century is this: that all these national governments, which each year kill or threaten way more… — Tyler Mcmahon Copy Share Image
Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to… — Ellwood Patterson Cubberley Copy Share Image
It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
The very quality of books to read and facts to master with which the twentieth-century man is confronted encourages him to think… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
“Technology will be the main driver of this change. And, in the long run, we will neither need nor want professionals to… — Richard Susskind Copy Share Image
I've always thought photography was an art form, but it had very low appreciation in the beginning, except for some Europeans, and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R.… — Randall Balmer Copy Share Image
We believe that there is one economic lesson which our twentieth century experience has demonstrated conclusively-that America can no more survive and… — Benjamin Franklin Fairless Copy Share Image
A word to the wise to all the children of the twentieth century, whether their concern be pediatrics or geriatrics, whether they… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Throughout the twentieth century and into the beginning of the twenty-first, the United States repeatedly used its military power, and that of… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Never before in history has such a sweeping fervor for freedom expressed itself in great mass movements which are driving down the… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
“For at the beginning of the twentieth century, the nation had been struggling to find its way. Terror had raged, a second… — Howard Blum Copy Share Image
The twentieth century saw the emergence of a Churchless Mission and a Missionless Church — Eddie Gibbs Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
