Best Twentieth Century Quotations

257 Twentieth Century quotes by 214 unique authors

• The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture… — Geoffrey Nunberg
• The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in. — James Howard Kunstler
• Nevertheless, during the sixty years of the twentieth century many problems have come increasingly into the realm of acceptable public discussion. — Herman Kahn
• In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentences. Generations of… — Robert Bringhurst
• In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of preventing an evil… — Emil Fackenheim
• Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be… — Peter Medawar
• The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his book Death by… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
• Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and beliefs that emerged… — Eric Schlosser
• It is the retention by twentieth-century, Atom-Age men of the Neolithic point of view that says: You stay in your village and I will stay… — Carleton S. Coon
• If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit the loyalty of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The best argument for anarchism is the twentieth century. — Joseph Sobran
• Our schools are, in a sense, factories, in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various… — Unknown Author
• The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age. — Winston Churchill
• Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially… — Al Alvarez
• There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene. — Harold E. Varmus
• Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there is no victory… — Kenneth Waltz
• The blessing of the state, implicit or explicit, has been crucial to every twentieth-century information empire. — Tim Wu
• The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century. — Manolo Blahnik
• This is what we've been waiting for: finally, an unprecedented critical analysis of the history of Dutch design. Mienke Simon Thomas's Dutch Design is a… — Wim Crouwel
• Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been… — Malcolm Muggeridge
• Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between early-twentieth-century… — Rebecca L. Walkowitz
• Not all writers are artists. But all of us like the idea of somebody in the year 2283 blowing the dust off one of our… — Unknown Author
• I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings about those things… — Wendy Lesser
• We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would… — Jim Elliot
• I played ten injury-free years between the ages of 12 and 22. Then, suddenly, it seemed like I was allergic to the twentieth century. — Nigel Melville

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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