Twentieth Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

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 of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.

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.

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

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

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

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.

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.

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.