Best Twentieth Century Sayings

257 Twentieth Century quotes by 214 unique authors

• When Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed that if he could be right 75 percent of the time, he would reach the… — Dale Carnegie
• The greatest leaders in fighting for an integrated America in the twentieth century were in the Democratic Party. The fact is, it was the liberal… — Newt Gingrich
• The humanities and science are not in inherent conflict but have become separated in the twentieth century. Now their essential unity must be re-emphasized, so… — Lewis Mumford
• For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling cabal which is centered… — Carroll Quigley
• The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too high. This may… — John Holdren
• And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the same grief, terror… — Vasily Grossman
• It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the… — John McGahern
• There is no task of greater importance than to give our children the very best preparation for the demands of an ominous future, a preparation… — Bruno Walter
• In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars adn government repression… — Peter Singer
• I now want to tell three stories about advances in twentieth-century physics. A curious fact emerges in these tales: time and again physicists have been… — Steven Weinberg
• American culture has a lot of great moustaches in its history. Mark Twain had a great moustache, Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin ... but Zappa, he's… — Matt Groening
• Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed, and many other distinctions that… — Donna J. Haraway
• One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the twentieth century. — Jack the Ripper
• The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal to accept exploitation… — Immanuel Wallerstein
• The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history. — Robin G. Collingwood
• News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it. — Frank Miller
• What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. — James Fenton
• It is surely indisputable that no single leader in the twentieth century exerted as great an influence on the course of world history as Lenin. — Dmitri Volkogonov
• Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at the… — Rigoberta Menchu
• Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions. — A J P Taylor
• Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat death can never… — Freeman Dyson
• The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by… — Carroll Quigley
• It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the… — Alex Carey

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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