20th Century Quotes

No one who has lived through the second half of the 20th century could possibly be blind to the enormous impact of exchange programs on the future of countries.

The 20th century was the century of war and blood. The 21st century is the century of dialogue.

A stable 21st century society requires 21st century solutions not 20th century economics

I don't seem to fit really into the 20th Century

Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st.

Western music is arguably America's greatest contribution to the 20th century, cultural or otherwise.

The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century.

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century.

It was a dogma throughout most of the 20th century that quantum science only applied to subatomic matter, and we now know that not to be true. One of the major discoveries was Quantum Holography.

Norman Rockwell, the Brueghel of the 20th century bourgeoisie, the Holbein of Jell-O ads and magazine covers; by common assent, the most American artist of all.

Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century.

The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly.

We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.

The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables.

I've always been in love with the movies. They're the dreams of the 20th Century.

Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century.

I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out of that and read an average Jeanette Winterson book or something.

Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.

Not only did she [Marilyn Monroe] master her own image, create it and ultimately control it, she was the subject of many of the great masters of photography of the 20th century.

Television is the medium of the 20th century.

Wrap up the 20th century; Fred Astaire is gone.

In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.

It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century.

When I write lyrics, I really do go into an automatic folk appropriation mode... I see the vernacular register of 20th century song as being a bunch of forms to adapt and reconfigure.

Comandante Fidel Castro is the greatest revolutionary of the 20th Century, bar none.

I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.

Suddenly, in the early 20th century, there were thousands of men with essentially nothing to do. The farm work, as well as other work, was being handled by machines.

India is the Saudi Arabia of human resources for the 21st century. The power that we used to get from oil in 20th century, we will get it from people like you in 21st century.

I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.

The record of poetry in the 20th century isn't all that great anyway. Most of the poets who weren't fascists were Stalinists.

Metro, built in the late 20th century, is the most escalator-dependent system in the world.

Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century.

Fidel Castro is one of the most inspiring leaders of the 20th century.

Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.

I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half of the 20th century.

In the 20th century, artists did a great disservice to fairies. They painted fairies in a way that was shallow and trite. So when people see my stuff, they suddenly realize the depth of fairies.

The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century.

The most urgent domestic challenge facing the United States at the close of the 20th century is the re-creation of fatherhood as a social role for men.

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

20th century poetry is a piñata. Images break from the earth when the poet strikes it.

Now if you think about the 20th century and the idea of visual vocabulary the album occupies a really important space in the cultural landscape and, above all.

We're not on a sustainable path in civilization. We're on an exponential growth curve, on which we perhaps always have been, but it has turned up sharply at the beginning of the 20th century.

By the 20th century, war ceased to be an encounter between two armies. It became an encounter between two societies, because a factory worker producing a gun or a bomb is as deadly as a pilot.

The 20th century ended with a single surviving model of human progress.

As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on the way.

The ingredients that made this country, you know, the miracle of the world - I mean we had a seven for one improvement in the average American standard of living in the 20th century.

The ideas of [ Le Corbusier ] that actually found their way into practice were deeply destructive - for instance, the tower-in-a-park, which mutated into the vertical slums of the late 20th century.

What we have lived through, the 20th century, has been like a great party. Adults now have had the best time humanity has ever had. Now the party is over and the Earth is reckoning up.

The car was the iPhone of the 20th century. Kids these days don't have to drive anymore. They just go there virtually.

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.