52 Twentieth Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Kenneth Scott Latourette

It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century. Martin Amis

Good Fashion Great Me World Path First Half Think Took Response Good Ones Horrors Fact Writers Clearer Gloom Becoming False Celebrated In Fact Century Certain Twentieth Twentieth Century

The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects. Martin Filler

Technology Man Architecture Made Building Before Our Dilemma Possible Architects Similarly More New Calculations Concentrating Tall New Forms End Than Modern Doomed Whether Place Forms Public Low Century Twentieth Twentieth Century Ever

At the turn of the twentieth century, board games were becoming increasingly commonplace in middle-class homes. In addition, more and more inventors were discovering that the games were not just a pastime but also a means of communication. Mary Pilon

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational. Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Mission Irrational Century Twentieth Twentieth Century

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on. Michael Behe

Life Best Science Natural Made Our Must Selection Observations Deal Go Were Discover Shock Cannot Century Us Natural Selection Therefore Mechanisms Twentieth Twentieth Century Fundamental Designed

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate. Michael Mandelbaum

Natural Seen Increasingly Once Considered Kind Part Course Inequality Came Existence Normal Any Human Human Existence Century Illegitimate Twentieth Twentieth Century

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

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As a young man in South Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gandhi developed satyagraha, a mode of political activism based upon moral persuasion, while mobilizing South Africa's small Indian minority against racial discrimination. Pankaj Mishra

Man Political Minority South Africa Beginning Young Moral Indian Small Developed South Discrimination Mode Africa While Against Young Man Century Racial Persuasion Gandhi Twentieth Twentieth Century Activism Based

Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism. Pankaj Mishra

Nation Politicians Weaker Journalism Countries Like Japan Century Help Twentieth Twentieth Century Populist Early Britain

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said. Peter Lewis Allen

The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse set of institutions that are the envy of the civilized world. Once they were the province, both among the student and faculty bodies, of children of privilege, generally WASPs. Rick Perlstein

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Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity. Robert H. Schuller

History Seriously Will Christianity Pentecostal Brought Voice Taken Name Roberts Oral Movement Century Twentieth Twentieth Century

It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness. Rollo May

People Problem Practice Own Say Colleagues My Own Well Emptiness Sound Clinical Surprising Chief Decade May Psychiatric Middle Psychological Century Twentieth Twentieth Century Basis

The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny. Rowan Williams

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Music has become something different from the past, when it was one hundred per cent live. Throughout the twentieth century, it was recorded, and the medium adjusted. Ryuichi Sakamoto

Music Become Past Live Medium Hundred Adjusted Per Something Recorded Throughout Different Cent Century Twentieth Twentieth Century

I was Danny Zuko in 'Grease,' and I was in the musical 'Sweet Charity' and then in the musical 'On the Twentieth Century.' They were great. I mean, singing isn't really my strong suit, but I just really enjoyed it. Sebastian Stan

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For most of the twentieth century, a Minnesotan abroad could fix his home state in the cosmos by invoking for his hosts the name Charles Lindbergh or Bob Dylan, native sons who were claimed by the world and never really returned to the Gopher State. Steve Rushin

Home World State Claimed Charles Cosmos Abroad Could Never Hosts Sons Name Invoking Most Returned Were His Fix Native Dylan Century Bob Bob Dylan Really Who Home State Twentieth Twentieth Century

The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was balanced precariously between the darkness of the Great Depression on one side and the storms of war in Europe and the Pacific on the other. Tom Brokaw

It's been an obsession with me from childhood, the horrors of the twentieth century. Tony Harrison

Me Horrors Obsession Been Childhood Century Twentieth Twentieth Century

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line. W. E. B. Du Bois

Problem Color Line Century Twentieth Twentieth Century

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century. Werner Herzog

Think Major Psychology Century Twentieth Twentieth Century

During the twentieth century, men fought on behalf of nationalism. Yet the wars they fought were also engendered by dislocations in world markets and by social revolution stimulated by the coming of the industrial age. Zbigniew Brzezinski

Age World Men Revolution Nationalism Markets Industrial Also Coming Stimulated Were Behalf Social Century Wars Twentieth Twentieth Century Fought

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