Twentieth Century Quotes

257 quotes by 214 authors

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind. — Henri Bergson
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. — W. E. B. Du Bois
The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. — Albert Camus
If we allow the celebrity rock-star model of leadership to triumph, we will see the decline of corporations and institutions of all types. The twentieth… — James C. Collins
This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to… — Tom Robbins
Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and… — Malcolm X
The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety. — Norman Mailer
In his book Modern Times, the historian Paul Johnson referred to Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini as the three devils of the twentieth century. Interestingly, Nietzshean… — Ravi Zacharias
From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as… — R. D. Laing
The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it… — Lewis Thomas
Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a dinosaur or zeppelin… — Peter Medawar
To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from further encroachment and… — Norman Lamm
Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature....Ultimately, the Darwinian theory of… — Michael Denton
Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one of the institutional… — Daniel D. Polsby
The twentieth century must be a century of the Blessed Sacrament if it means to be a century of resurrection and of life — Pope Leo XIII
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of… — Raoul Vaneigem
No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest… — Unknown Author
Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only folk art of the twentieth century. — Unknown Author

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