Twentieth century Quotes · Page 2

“Adolescent sanity is so twentieth century”

— John Green

“The natural role of the twentieth-century man is anxiety.”

— Norman Mailer

The world is a colony of the US. The twentieth century was the US's century.

— Bill Henson

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

— John Charles Polanyi

Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.

— Rush Limbaugh

The major political event of the twentieth century is the death of socialism.

— Irving Kristol

“She doesn't remember the twentieth century. Isn't that terrifying?”

— Tom Rachman

“Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century.”

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

“In other words, by 2100, the entire planet could look like Europe at the turn of the twentieth century, at least in…

— Thomas Piketty

“Well, everyone's crazy these days, Dr. Singh. Adolescent sanity is so twentieth century.”

— John Green

the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of…

— Stephen King

Hayek became in his later years the dominant intellectual influence of the last quarter of the twentieth century.

— Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.

— James Howard Kunstler

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.

— John Rothenstein

“For much of the twentieth century, American visitors to Britain found that everything was the wrong temperature: cold, drafty rooms; warm beer…

— Bee Wilson

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity.…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of…

— Hugh Kingsmill

In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to…

— Charles Petzold

There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our…

— John F. Kennedy

“Science, the largest religion of the twentieth century, had become somewhat tarnished by images of exploding space shuttles, crack babies, and a…

— Jim Butcher

A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers…

— Marvin Minsky

From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence…

— R. D. Laing

There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Ideas about the scope and meaning of freedom of speech do expand and contract with the times. At the moment, we live…

— Lawrence M. Friedman

Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan…

— Malcolm X

Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings - millions - Catholic monks, Hindu monks,…

— Rajneesh

If two or three hundred years from now an earthbound civilization is dying ... and they look back at the opportunity that…

— Paul Levinson

Modernism really started with people getting infatuated with the idea of "it's the twentieth century, is this suitable for the twentieth century."…

— Jane Jacobs

“In the twentieth-century medicine benefited the masses because the twentieth century was the age of the masses. Twentieth-century armies needed millions of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“The great novel of twentieth-century New York might be the Daily News.”

— Pete Hamill

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

— Greg Egan

It's the Twentieth Century ... no more miracles.

— Clifford Odets

One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the twentieth century.

— Jack the Ripper

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.

— Marshall McLuhan

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier.

— John F. Kennedy

The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.

— Norman Mailer