Proust was the greatest novelist of the twentieth century, just as Tolstoy was in the nineteenth. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Going out? It seems so twentieth century. Do people really still do such a thing?” — Dave Franklin Copy Share Image
The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash,… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
“How much of twentieth-century poetry, how much of my own poetry, is the cry of the damned?” — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The twentieth century was marked by two broad trends: the regulation of capitalism and the deregulation of democracy. Both experiments overreached. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the… — Rebecca L. Walkowitz Copy Share Image
This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The problem that will doubtless interest future historians is not so much the presence, in the twentieth century, of mass political alienation,… — Lawrence Goodwyn Copy Share Image
To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from… — Norman Lamm 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
Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script,… — Geoffrey Nunberg Copy Share Image
It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It remained for the twentieth century to discover that locked within the atom is the energy of the sun itself. For this… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The greatest leaders in fighting for an integrated America in the twentieth century were in the Democratic Party. The fact is, it… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
One of the most intensely unlikeable figures of the twentieth century, fanatical anti-Semite, enemy of labour unions and proud recipient of medals… — Stephen Fry 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
Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
Originating with such figures as T. H. Huxley, who sought to bring Darwin's ideas to the masses, the popular science genre moved… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty? — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet… — Jenna Elfman Copy Share Image
Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book. — Alec-Tweedie Copy Share Image
“a block that had moved into the twentieth century carelessly and uncaringly—and with very limited funds.” — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, during the sixty years of the twentieth century many problems have come increasingly into the realm of acceptable public discussion. — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The twentieth century had a wonderful capacity for seeing nothing as the sum of everything. — Louis Dudek Copy Share Image
Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, with all due respect, the Jews are the ultimate victims of the twentieth century. — Ari Shavit Copy Share Image
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century welfare state capitalism was historically unique in that national income was split between wages and profits, labour and capital. — Guy Standing 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
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
History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight. — Neil Armstrong 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
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