Best 20th Century Sayings

287 20th Century quotes by 251 unique authors

It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape… — Lawrence Summers
Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read… — Leslie Fiedler
The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny… — John Keegan
The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that… — Alister E. McGrath
Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete;… — Strobe Talbott
Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside… — Jared Diamond
We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all… — James Lovelock
Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city. — Pete Hamill
I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in… — Gay Talese
If psychoanalysis was late 19th century secular Judaism’s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, and retail is the late 20th century’s way… — David Rakoff
Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston Churchill and Adolph… — Robert McKee
The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space. — Wilson Greatbatch
The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant… — Henry R. Luce
The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth. — Avery Brundage
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles,… — Jules de Goncourt
He ran a gas station down in St. Louis... No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century. — Hillary Clinton
Despite the large number of mergers, and the growth in the absolute size of many corporations, the dominant tendency in the American economy at the… — Gabriel Kolko
This year marks 20 years since the Rwandan genocide -- the world's greatest humanitarian tragedy of the late 20th century. The international community had pledged… — Park Geun-hye
We all shared an admiration of Debussy both as a musician and as sort of an icon for the 20th century. It seemed like an… — Anne Dudley
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century. — Malcolm Muggeridge
I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries. — Joschka Fischer
The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events… — J. G. Ballard
I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and… — Walter Murch
Nursing has made great progress from being an occupation to becoming a profession in the 20th. Century. As the 21st. Century approaches, further progress will… — Unknown Author
The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL… — Peter Drucker

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