Best 20th Century Quotations

287 20th Century quotes by 251 unique authors

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century — Oriana Fallaci
Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded… — Wellington Mara
It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second… — William Labov
Solidarity was the best thing which happened in the 20th century. — Mikhail Saakashvili
But whatever you might say and whatever I might say, a machine which can play chess with people is one of the most marvellous wonders… — David Bronstein
Cancer can be attacked directly by metabolic enzymes and then be assisted by the enzyme diet programme. The second greatest cancer breakthrough of the 20th… — Benjamin Carson
History had been man's effort to accomodate himself to what he could not do. Amereican history in the 20th century would, more than ever before,… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform.… — Roger Corman
I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful. — Raymond Loewy
In the same way that slavery was a moral challenge for the 19th century and totalitarianism was a challenge for the 20th century, the challenge… — Sheryl WuDunn
I loved being at the studio (20th Century-Fox). After all, I started at 15, and I grew up there. But there comes a time when… — Unknown Author
The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or… — Mike Lofgren
The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of… — Unknown Author
Throughout the 20th century, we created wealth through vertically integrated corporations. Now, we create wealth through networks. We are at a turning point in human… — Don Tapscott
The fundamental landscape of biology is undergoing a major upheaval, much as it did in the first decades of the 20th Century. This upheaval will… — Unknown Author
Distraction is the most corrosive disease of the 20th century. — James Victore
The wisdom and spirit of Churchill not only saved Britain from the Third Reich but saved Western civilization from a Nazi Dark Ages when no… — Victor Davis Hanson
Julio's Day is a story of one man's life, but it's a great more than that as well. It's the story of the life of… — Brian Evenson
No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century. — Diana Vreeland
Darwin, Marx, and Freud meet. They may have understood other things, but the human soul, and in particular the soul of Culture-man, they did not… — Francis Parker Yockey
Einstein believed deeply that science should transcend national and ethnic divisions. But he watched physicists and chemists become the purveyors of weapons of mass destruction… — Krista Tippett
Gandhi: Ninny of the 20th Century. — Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a… — Tom Selleck
In the 19th century, we devoted our best minds to exploring nature. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and harnessing it. In… — Stephen Ambrose
I feel like we're between two great possibilities: we're either going to turn things around, and in this generation see the rising sun of a… — Alan Keyes

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