Twentieth century Quotes · Page 6

News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.

— Frank Miller

As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience…

— Will Self

The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.

— Quentin Crisp

Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.

— Arthur Compton

The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the…

— Alain Aspect

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.

— James Fenton

The great problems of the Twentieth century will have immediate relation to the discoveries of America, of Africa, and of Australia.

— Joseph Jacobs

The twentieth century may well find historical status as the epoch in which man began to study himself as a scientific phenomenon.

— Timothy Leary

The development of physics in the twentieth century already has transformed the consciousness of those involved with it. The study (of modern…

— Gary Zukav

Frazer is much more savage than most of his savages, for they are not as far removed from the understanding of spiritual…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is often difficult to know about one's own era which philosophers in it will be remembered as the most important ones,…

— Allen W. Wood

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of…

— Harold Innis

The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was balanced precariously between…

— Tom Brokaw

I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century... I'd been brought up to think there was…

— Peter Wolf

To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic'…

— Mary Ritter Beard

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

If you look at say, England and Germany a century ago, which had the most advanced navies then, they were dealing with…

— Noam Chomsky

As the corporation's size and power grew, so did the need to assuage people's fears of it. The corporation suffered its first…

— Joel Bakan

The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in…

— Carroll Quigley

Regarding social order, [Francis] Fukuyama writes, "The systematic study of how order, and thus social capital, can emerge in spontaneous and decentralized…

— Douglass North

“When, in the fifteenth century, some audacious mariners who had sailed from Europe discovered America, nothing seemed to justify such a venture…

— Pierre Boulle

Advertisers regularly con us into believing that we genuinely need one luxury after another. We are convinced that we must keep up…

— Ronald J. Sider

It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should…

— Dalai Lama

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

— Caryl Rivers

If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles and refrigerators in the sky.

— Carl Sagan

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.

— Arundhati Roy

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

— Helen Vendler

The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most…

— Michael Medved

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

exile ... might be the largest new state created by the twentieth century and the psychology of the twenty-first century.

— Phyllis Chesler

“In the second half of the twentieth century humankind almost obliterated itself in an argument about production methods.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it.

— Helen Reddy

Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.

— Jerome Kern

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

— Norman Mailer

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

“I mean, this was the second half of the twentieth century, for pity’s sake, and they still saw communism as the road…

— Masaji Ishikawa

The twentieth century saw the emergence of a Churchless Mission and a Missionless Church

— Eddie Gibbs

Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.

— Charles W. Pickering

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

— Salman Rushdie