Twentieth Quotes

286 Twentieth quotes by 239 unique authors

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to… — Peter Lewis Allen
It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate… — Helen Dunmore
Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must… — Benito Mussolini
In the twentieth century the number of people killed by their own governments under authoritarian regimes is four times the number killed in all this… — John Shattuck
Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What… — Will Smith
As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society… — Kenzaburo Oe
It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble… — Alfred Korzybski
The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies;… — Ishmael Reed
In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not be dominated by assimiliationists… — Ishmael Reed
Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as… — H.G. Wells
I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me the same as… — Robert L. Devaney
The wearing of fabric head coverings in worship was universally the practice of Christian women until the twentieth century. What happened? Did we suddenly find… — R C Sproul
I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror… — Stephen King
If you can't say something nice... about an overrated, ungrateful European nation that would have been wiped off the face of the earth twice in… — Brad Stine
No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an… — Leland Ryken
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to… — Stephen Ambrose
This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts. — Alfred Leslie Rowse
The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age. — Russell Baker
When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was… — Thomas Sowell
Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and when open leave… — Emmet Gowin
Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. — Greg Egan
It’s notable that the countries that most pride themselves on their commitment to equality, human rights, and democracy (like the United States and the western… — Aviva Chomsky
I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most of which it… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should be one of… — Dalai Lama

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