Twentieth Quotes

286 Twentieth quotes by 239 unique authors

Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language. — Jerome Kern
What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. — James Fenton
It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world history as Lenin. — Dmitri Volkogonov
Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at the… — Rigoberta Menchu
Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions. — A J P Taylor
Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat death can never… — Freeman Dyson
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by… — Carroll Quigley
It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the… — Alex Carey
The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture… — Geoffrey Nunberg
The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in. — James Howard Kunstler
Nevertheless, during the sixty years of the twentieth century many problems have come increasingly into the realm of acceptable public discussion. — Herman Kahn
In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentences. Generations of… — Robert Bringhurst
Collage is the twentieth century's greatest innovation — Robert Motherwell
In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of preventing an evil… — Emil Fackenheim
Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be… — Peter Medawar
The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his book Death by… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and beliefs that emerged… — Eric Schlosser
It is the retention by twentieth-century, Atom-Age men of the Neolithic point of view that says: You stay in your village and I will stay… — Carleton S. Coon
If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit the loyalty of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century. — Joseph Sobran
Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various… — Unknown Author
No one yet knows what awaits the Jews in the twenty-first century, but we must make every effort to ensure that it is better than… — Benjamin Netanyahu
The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age. — Winston Churchill
Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially… — Al Alvarez
There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene. — Harold E. Varmus

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