Best Twentieth Century Lines
257 Twentieth Century quotes by 214 unique authors
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The wearing of fabric head coverings in worship was universally the practice of Christian women until the twentieth century. What happened? Did we suddenly find…
— R C Sproul
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If you can't say something nice... about an overrated, ungrateful European nation that would have been wiped off the face of the earth twice in…
— Brad Stine
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No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an…
— Leland Ryken
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This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.
— Alfred Leslie Rowse
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The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.
— Russell Baker
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When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was…
— Thomas Sowell
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Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and when open leave…
— Emmet Gowin
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Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.
— Greg Egan
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It’s notable that the countries that most pride themselves on their commitment to equality, human rights, and democracy (like the United States and the western…
— Aviva Chomsky
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I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most of which it…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should be one of…
— Dalai Lama
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A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful…
— Cyril Connolly
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The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn…
— Neil Postman
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In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent,…
— Susan Sontag
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It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the…
— Martin Amis
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Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.
— John Lahr
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Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the…
— John Lahr
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The civilization of the twentieth century cannot be universal except by being a dynamic synthesis of all the cultural values of all civilizations. It will…
— Leopold Sedar Senghor
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Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface…
— Kenneth Scott Latourette
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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of…
— Stephen Bayley
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Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides…
— Carl Bernstein
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It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be…
— Michael Behe
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just…
— Karen Armstrong
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
— Miguel de Unamuno
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Social historians of the future no doubt will be amused by the fact that we late-twentieth-century Americans found it acceptable to discuss publicly in detail…
— Mary Ann Glendon
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