Best Twentieth Century Lines

257 Twentieth Century quotes by 214 unique authors

• 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
• 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
• 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
• This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts. — Alfred Leslie Rowse
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. — Greg Egan
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America. — John Lahr
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century. — Miguel de Unamuno
• 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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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