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
As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics… — Robert A. Dahl Copy Share Image
The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. — Aldo Leopold 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
“But the media were about to go cold turkey on the whole latter half of the twentieth century, and the shock was… — Sarah Graves Copy Share Image
The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Judging by the pollution content of the atmosphere, I believe we have arrived at the late twentieth century. — Leonard Nimoy Copy Share Image
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
“Twentieth century women's fashions (with their cult of thinness) are the last stronghold of the metaphors associated with the romanticizing of TB… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We have seen things in the twentieth century like the ATM machine, the VCR, and even the car. The electric car was… — Joe Gebbia Copy Share Image
“Science strides ahead; politics stumbles around like a drunk. We saw it in the age of discovery and the age of empire,… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
A book that I rate only second in importance in evolution theory to Darwin 's Origin (this as joined with its supplement… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are in the twentieth or the twenty-first century, but all the thinking, if you speak to one of those people keen… — Jean-Luc Godard 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
“The fact that in the twentieth century a greater proportion of the people in the world could communicate with one another, using… — Andrew Dalby 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
I'll say that this is probably the best time for poetry since the T'ang dynasty. All the rest of the world is… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R.… — Randall Balmer Copy Share Image
Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to… — Ellwood Patterson Cubberley Copy Share Image
A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“What did priests, rabbis and muftis discover in the twentieth century that can be mentioned in the same breath as antibiotics, computers… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there… — Kenneth Waltz Copy Share Image
The reason Ataturk, Kemal Ataturk was and is so highly reputed, is he was attempting to modernize… That’s not the right word.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“The beauty of the twentieth century is the charm of the hospital, the grace of the cemetery, of consumption and emaciation. I… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent… — Simon Newcomb 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
“As recently as the twentieth century, some cultures retained religious prohibitions asserting the “uncleanliness” of believers eating at the same table as… — Ted Gioia Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
and in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
There's a strange myth of Anglo-Saxonism. When the University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson, for example, its law school offered… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
At the turn of the twentieth century, board games were becoming increasingly commonplace in middle-class homes. In addition, more and more inventors… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
“...the self in the twentieth century is a voracious nought which expands like the feeding vacuole of an amoeba seeking to nourish… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
