The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
What's interesting about young black American artists within the twentieth century, and increasingly within the twenty-first as well, is that there's this… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
No specific technology. My guess is that it was the instinct always to go to maximum scale. Great Britain kept much more… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings… — Wendy Lesser Copy Share Image
If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to… — Tom Robbins 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
There was also a national policy, which as a child I didn't know anything about. In 1924 the first major immigration law… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous… — Bruno Walter Copy Share Image
Like twentieth-century Iran, the remnant of the Persian Empire, Ethiopia under Haile Selassie attempted to preserve the absolutist state throught an accommodation… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Throughout the twentieth century and into the beginning of the twenty-first, the United States repeatedly used its military power, and that of… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
One of the major changes in attitude that occurred in the world of art as we moved from the nineteenth into the… — Jerry Uelsmann 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
It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems,… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“The European history of the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men… — Timothy Snyder 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
Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“writers all had drinking problems in the twentieth century, and once she got the $1,080 check, she was obviously a writer and… — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Although the patriarchal ego prides itself on being reasonable, the twentieth century has been anything but the Age of Reason. In our… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn,… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
“until the last quarter of the twentieth century, racially explicit policies of federal, state, and local governments defined where whites and African… — Richard Rothstein Copy Share Image
Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative… — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
Ideology - that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the neccessary steadfastness and determination... Thanks to ideology,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The mass hallucination of the twentieth century is this: that all these national governments, which each year kill or threaten way more… — Tyler Mcmahon Copy Share Image
The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
“Man-made death became epidemic in the twentieth century because increasingly efficient killing technologies made the extreme exercise of national sovereignty pathological.” — Richard Rhodes Copy Share Image
. . I think the Adam Smith role was played in this cycle i.e. the late twentieth century collapse of socialism in… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“THE TWENTIETH CENTURY was a period defined by the struggle for individual political, economic, and personal liberty against various forms of oppression,… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
I've always thought photography was an art form, but it had very low appreciation in the beginning, except for some Europeans, and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
