Best Twentieth Century Words

257 Twentieth Century quotes by 214 unique authors

• History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight. — Neil Armstrong
• In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious… — Laurie Garrett
• The industrial civilisation is based on the consumption of energy resources that are inherently limited in quantity and that are about to become scarce. When… — Richard Heinberg
• This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and shapes, to the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about… — Jenna Elfman
• In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness.… — Don DeLillo
• Celibacy is one of the most unnatural things. It has destroyed so many human beings - millions - Catholic monks, Hindu monks, Buddhist monks, Jaina… — Rajneesh
• Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy. — Charles W. Pickering
• In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back to the earth,… — Frederick Franck
• As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of physics and astronomy,… — Huston Smith
• The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of… — George Gilder
• Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue. — Dalai Lama
• A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and… — Garry Kasparov
• Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to… — Peter Lewis Allen
• It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate… — Helen Dunmore
• Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must… — Benito Mussolini
• In the twentieth century the number of people killed by their own governments under authoritarian regimes is four times the number killed in all this… — John Shattuck
• Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What… — Will Smith
• As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society… — Kenzaburo Oe
• It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble… — Alfred Korzybski
• The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies;… — Ishmael Reed
• In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not be dominated by assimiliationists… — Ishmael Reed
• Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as… — H.G. Wells
• I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
• It has been said that the three great develpments in twentieth century science are relativity, quantum mechanics, and chaos. That strikes me the same as… — Robert L. Devaney

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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
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• 2 Twentieth Century Quotes by Ishmael Reed
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