20th Century Quotes
20th Century Quote of the day
The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English.
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.
A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society.
I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.
Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.
We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century
If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.
I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization - you can't just swallow it whole.
The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade.
I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.
A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.
Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.
The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.
It is my opinion that the 21st century will be the century of play, and the heteroglossic activity of artists in the 20th century has been the forecast.
Education in the key to preventing the cycle of violence and hatred that marred the 20th century from repeating itself in the 21st century.
Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.
Don't be afraid of anything. We've seen so much suffering and evil in the 20th century and we got through it. We can go on. God is with us. God will help us. Trust Him.
The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.
We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.
We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.
I like living in the 20th century... to me the world has never been more beautiful. I am trying to paint the real world I live in, as beautifully as I can with my own eyes.
But whatever you might say and whatever I might say, a machine which can play chess with people is one of the most marvellous wonders of our 20th century!
It is very easy for me to imagine in 200 years, people looking back at chemotherapy as proof that people of the 20th century were insane and just morons.
I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.
It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extinguished more than one hundred million people.
No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
The warming we've experienced in the late 20th century could just as easily be explained by small decreases in cloud cover - natural changes in the system - and have nothing to do with CO2.
The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any viability of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an American century.
Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.
The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.
Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.
We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.
Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don’t need to worry about me; I have a college education. I’m not destitute. I'm living like this by choice.
The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.
In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.
In the first half of the 20th Century, we lived through human disasters on a scale unimaginable. The Holocaust was once suggested would be the end of not only civilization, but art, too.
To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.
Pretty much anything you laughed at in the second half of the 20th century can be traced back to Your Show Of Shows.