Twentieth Quotes

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

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

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

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.

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

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

As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.