When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism. — Douglas Rushkoff 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
Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one… — Daniel D. Polsby Copy Share Image
Since ancient times, the left side has stood for the side of the unconscious or the unknown; the right side, by contrast,… — Jean Gebser Copy Share Image
We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible. — Jill Lepore 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
At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams. — Arthur Compton 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
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
I find it strange that - at least in my take on it - the people who are the most alarmed about… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
So long as our textbooks hide from us the roles that people of color have played in exploration, from at least 6000… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
The twentieth century had dispensed with the formal declaration of war and introduced the fifth column, sabotage, cold war, and war by… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those… — Art Spiegelman 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
I played ten injury-free years between the ages of 12 and 22. Then, suddenly, it seemed like I was allergic to the twentieth century. — Nigel Melville Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over… — Al Alvarez 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
The civilization of the twentieth century cannot be universal except by being a dynamic synthesis of all the cultural values of all… — Leopold Sedar Senghor Copy Share Image
It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift… — Rodney Clapp 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
