How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century, — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century developments in science support a new animism. Developments in physics have led to a world of energetic events which seem to… — David Ray Griffin Copy Share Image
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
We've come a long way since 'Beowulf.' In the twentieth century, a strain in children's and YA literature offered the humorously conceived… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as Twentieth Century Americans. We look to the history… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
It's been an obsession with me from childhood, the horrors of the twentieth century. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
There's a strange myth of Anglo-Saxonism. When the University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson, for example, its law school offered… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism. — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
“When I came out into the outside room again, I saw her shoe still lying there, where it had come off in… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
A book that I rate only second in importance in evolution theory to Darwin 's Origin (this as joined with its supplement… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents,… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ...… — Mary Ritter Beard Copy Share Image
Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
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