Best Twentieth Century Wisdom

257 Twentieth Century quotes by 214 unique authors

• As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth… — Robert A. Dahl
• Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before… — Robertson Davies
• In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact… — E L Doctorow
• It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be… — Freeman Dyson
• Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to… — James Fenton
• I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century. — Werner Herzog
• The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had… — Alan Keyes
• Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century. — Rush Limbaugh
• The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. — Norman Mailer
• Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. — Marshall McLuhan
• Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. — Margaret Mead
• One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been… — Malcolm Muggeridge
• Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. — Benito Mussolini
• Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact,… — Dennis Prager
• On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London… — Carroll Quigley
• Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century. — Salman Rushdie
• Early-twentieth-century abstraction is art's version of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. It's the idea that changed everything everywhere: quickly, decisively, for good. — Jerry Saltz
• It is not possible to overstate the influence of Paul Cezanne on twentieth-century art. He's the modern Giotto, someone who shattered one kind of picture-making… — Jerry Saltz
• The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
• The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. — Gertrude Stein
• The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote,… — Adlai E. Stevenson
• Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to… — Hunter S. Thompson
• If the end of the twentieth century can be characterized by futurism, the twenty-first can be defined by presentism. — Douglas Rushkoff
• By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we… — Donna J. Haraway
• If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions… — Tom Robbins

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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