Twentieth Quotes

286 Twentieth quotes by 239 unique authors

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too high. This may… — John Holdren
And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the same grief, terror… — Vasily Grossman
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the… — John McGahern
There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous future, a preparation… — Bruno Walter
In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars adn government repression… — Peter Singer
I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again physicists have been… — Steven Weinberg
American culture has a lot of great moustaches in its history. Mark Twain had a great moustache, Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin ... but Zappa, he's… — Matt Groening
Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed, and many other distinctions that… — Donna J. Haraway
One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the twentieth century. — Jack the Ripper
The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal to accept exploitation… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history. — Robin G. Collingwood
Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the… — William McKinley
News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it. — Frank Miller
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

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