My links with [Mahatma] Gandhi now are very political links because I do not believe there is any other politics available to… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It’s notable that the countries that most pride themselves on their commitment to equality, human rights, and democracy (like the United States… — Aviva Chomsky Copy Share Image
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
What's clarity like? Try to remember that funny feeling inside your head when you had math problems too difficult to solve: the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less… — Will Hutton Copy Share Image
A woman was the property of her father or her husband and that remained true right into the twentieth century. It wasn't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century. — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
It is my opinion that the Christian conception of God current in these middle years of the twentieth century is so decadent… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the… — Elgin Groseclose Copy Share Image
Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming… — H. G. Wells 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
Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language. — Jerome Kern Copy Share Image
This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the twentieth century barbarism can throw off its gentle disguise, and burn a man at the stake as… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image