Twentieth Quotes
286 quotes by 247 authors
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Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
— Russell Baker
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The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.
— Henri Bergson
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.
— Albert Camus
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There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our economy is expanding…
— John F. Kennedy
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If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all types. The twentieth…
— James C. Collins
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This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to…
— Tom Robbins
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Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and…
— Malcolm X
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The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.
— Norman Mailer
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In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth century. Interestingly, Nietzshean…
— Ravi Zacharias
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From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as…
— R. D. Laing
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The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it…
— Lewis Thomas
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Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a dinosaur or zeppelin…
— Peter Medawar
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To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from further encroachment and…
— Norman Lamm
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Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature....Ultimately, the Darwinian theory of…
— Michael Denton
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Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional…
— Daniel D. Polsby
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During the reign of Rameses III (the Twentieth Dynasty) Egypt saw a flowering of its civilization and the harp became the royal instrument of priests…
— Corinne Heline
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The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life
— Pope Leo XIII
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In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of…
— Raoul Vaneigem
Who Wrote These Twentieth Quotes
247 authors contributed a total of 286 Twentieth Quotes, led by these top contributors: