Best Twentieth Century Quotes

257 Twentieth Century quotes by 214 unique authors

• The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she… — Gertrude Stein
• There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasnt heard it. — Helen Reddy
• Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution… — Leonard Bernstein
• We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
• The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before — Ron Silver
• I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the… — Art Spiegelman
• This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses… — Lionel Barrymore
• The hold of the evolutionary paradigm is so powerful that an idea which is more like a principle of medieval astrology than a serious twentieth… — Michael Denton
• Building on exhaustive research and probing into such diverse enterprises as textbook production and marketing, public education, and state-level politics, Adam R. Shapiro has situated… — Unknown Author
• THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh . . .… — Unknown Author
• They [Narnia] are, perhaps, the greatest classics of children’s literature of the twentieth century. — Douglas Gresham
• Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism. — Angela Carter
• The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. — Norman Mailer
• When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of… — Shirley Chisholm
• The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in… — W. E. B. Du Bois
• Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets. — Joseph Brodsky
• And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls… — Paul Ryan
• I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those… — Edward Bellamy
• It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so… — Taslima Nasrin
• How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century, — Muriel Spark
• I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first… — Victor Hugo
• A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and… — Kurt Vonnegut
• In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be… — Victor Hugo
• While public school history courses in the United States stress the horrors of the German Nazi murder of 6 million Jews and Josef Stalin's pogroms… — Unknown Author
• To define twentieth-century humanism briefly, I would say that it is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity in this… — Corliss Lamont

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Who Wrote These Twentieth Century Quotes

214 authors contributed a total of 257 Twentieth Century Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 8 Twentieth Century Quotes by Unknown Author
• 4 Twentieth Century Quotes by Eric Hoffer
• 3 Twentieth Century Quotes by Norman Mailer
• 3 Twentieth Century Quotes by Marshall McLuhan
• 3 Twentieth Century Quotes by Carroll Quigley
• 2 Twentieth Century Quotes by W. E. B. Du Bois
• 2 Twentieth Century Quotes by Victor Hugo
• 2 Twentieth Century Quotes by Tom Robbins
• 2 Twentieth Century Quotes by Russell Baker
• 2 Twentieth Century Quotes by Raoul Vaneigem
• 2 Twentieth Century Quotes by Peter Medawar
• 2 Twentieth Century Quotes by Noam Chomsky
• 2 Twentieth Century Quotes by Michael Denton
• 2 Twentieth Century Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 2 Twentieth Century Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge
• 2 Twentieth Century Quotes by Lewis Thomas
• 2 Twentieth Century Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
• 2 Twentieth Century Quotes by John Lahr
• 2 Twentieth Century Quotes by Jerry Saltz
• 2 Twentieth Century Quotes by James Gleick
• 2 Twentieth Century Quotes by James Fenton
• 2 Twentieth Century Quotes by Ishmael Reed
• 2 Twentieth Century Quotes by Immanuel Wallerstein
• 2 Twentieth Century Quotes by Gertrude Stein
• 2 Twentieth Century Quotes by Freeman Dyson