Twentieth Quotes
286 quotes by 239 authors
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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
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Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century.
— Unknown Author
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasnt heard it.
— Helen Reddy
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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
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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
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Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.
— Julie Andrews
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The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before
— Ron Silver
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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
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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
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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
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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
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THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh . . .…
— Unknown Author
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They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century.
— Douglas Gresham
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Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
— Angela Carter
Who Wrote These Twentieth Quotes
239 authors contributed a total of 286 Twentieth Quotes, led by these top contributors: