Twentieth Quotes

286 Twentieth quotes by 239 unique authors

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
Itâ€™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
On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. — Thornton Wilder
A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful… — Cyril Connolly
The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn… — Neil Postman
In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent,… — Susan Sontag
It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the… — Martin Amis
Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America. — John Lahr
Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the… — John Lahr
The civilization of the twentieth century cannot be universal except by being a dynamic synthesis of all the cultural values of all civilizations. It will… — Leopold Sedar Senghor
Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface… — Kenneth Scott Latourette
As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of… — Stephen Bayley

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