Twentieth Quotes

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

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.

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

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

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.

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of 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.

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

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.

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.

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

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 most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

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.

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.