Twentieth Quotes

286 quotes by 239 authors

No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest… — Unknown Author
Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century. — Unknown Author
How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the… — Aneurin Bevan
One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been… — Jacob Bronowski
Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but… — Noam Chomsky
This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain… — Don DeLillo
The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she… — Gertrude Stein
There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasnt heard it. — Helen Reddy
Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution… — Leonard Bernstein
We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth. — Julie Andrews
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before — Ron Silver
I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the… — Art Spiegelman
This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses… — Lionel Barrymore
The hold of the evolutionary paradigm is so powerful that an idea which is more like a principle of medieval astrology than a serious twentieth… — Michael Denton
Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R. Shapiro has situated… — Unknown Author
THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh . . .… — Unknown Author
They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of childrenâ€™s literature of the twentieth century. — Douglas Gresham
Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism. — Angela Carter

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239 authors contributed a total of 286 Twentieth Quotes, led by these top contributors: