Twentieth Quotes

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

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 the century of biology.

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 century.

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 and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.

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 same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

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 the human race.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.

This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.

That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century.

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird.

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.

I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal.

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 was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China.

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 said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it.

I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

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 evolutionary drama.

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.