Twentieth Quotes

286 Twentieth quotes by 239 unique authors

As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of physics and astronomy,… — Huston Smith
The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of… — George Gilder
Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue. — Dalai Lama
A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and… — Garry Kasparov
It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead. — Kim Stanley
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

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