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257 Twentieth Century quotes by 214 unique authors

• The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money.… — Eric Hoffer
• In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the… — Juan Goytisolo
• Space exploration must be undertaken not only out of simple human curiosity but also to further the survival of the species. The twentieth century has… — Edgar Mitchell
• If two or three hundred years from now an earthbound civilization is dying ... and they look back at the opportunity that we have here… — Paul Levinson
• In the course of his long, turbulent career, W. E. B. Du Bois attempted virtually every possible solution to the problem of twentieth-century racism...scholarship, propaganda,… — David Levering Lewis
• In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to suppose that devices… — Charles Petzold
• There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought… — Robert A. Heinlein
• Any page by Paul Goodman will give you not only originality and brilliance but wisdom, that is, something to think about. He is our peculiar,… — Hayden Carruth
• The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in… — Arnold J. Toynbee
• The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and… — John Ortberg
• With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned… — Ralph Adams Cram
• We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century [...] lies where we have never suspected it [...] The only palliative is… — C.S. Lewis
• Advertisers regularly con us into believing that we genuinely need one luxury after another. We are convinced that we must keep up with or even… — Ronald J. Sider
• Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were… — Neal Stephenson
• The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin,… — Eric Hoffer
• Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism… — Eric Hoffer
• The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in… — Eric Hoffer
• In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be more and more… — Daniel J. Boorstin
• The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. — Aldo Leopold
• One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends. — Caryl Rivers
• I was like one of those people who is allergic to the twentieth century... I'd been brought up to think there was some order to… — Peter Wolf
• The greatest Marxist writer of the twentieth century, paradoxically, is also one of the greatest examples of the independence of the human spirit from its… — James Joll
• To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the flattery… — George Steiner
• In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. — Erich Fromm
• I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse. — Bing Crosby

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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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