Twentieth Quotes

286 Twentieth quotes by 239 unique authors

The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin,… — Eric Hoffer
Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism… — Eric Hoffer
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in… — Eric Hoffer
In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be more and more… — Daniel J. Boorstin
The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. — Aldo Leopold
Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow in Indian miniatures.… — Derek Jarman
One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends. — Caryl Rivers
I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century... I'd been brought up to think there was some order to… — Peter Wolf
An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a creed can be held in one age but cannot be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its… — James Joll
To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the flattery… — George Steiner
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. — Erich Fromm
I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse. — Bing Crosby
As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth… — Robert A. Dahl
Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before… — Robertson Davies
In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact… — E L Doctorow
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be… — Freeman Dyson
Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to… — James Fenton
I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century. — Werner Herzog
The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had… — Alan Keyes

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