Twentieth Quotes

286 Twentieth quotes by 239 unique authors

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides… — Carl Bernstein
It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be… — Michael Behe
At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just… — Karen Armstrong
These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century. — Miguel de Unamuno
Social historians of the future no doubt will be amused by the fact that we late-twentieth-century Americans found it acceptable to discuss publicly in detail… — Mary Ann Glendon
After all, I quite naturally want to live in order to fulfill my whole capacity for living, and not in order to fulfill my reasoning… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money.… — Eric Hoffer
In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the… — Juan Goytisolo
Space exploration must be undertaken not only out of simple human curiosity but also to further the survival of the species. The twentieth century has… — Edgar Mitchell
If two or three hundred years from now an earthbound civilization is dying ... and they look back at the opportunity that we have here… — Paul Levinson
In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship, propaganda,… — David Levering Lewis
In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to suppose that devices… — Charles Petzold
There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought… — Robert A. Heinlein
Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our peculiar,… — Hayden Carruth
The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in… — Arnold J. Toynbee
The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and… — John Ortberg
With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned… — Ralph Adams Cram
We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is… — C.S. Lewis
Advertisers regularly con us into believing that we genuinely need one luxury after another. We are convinced that we must keep up with or even… — Ronald J. Sider
Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were… — Neal Stephenson

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