Twentieth Quotes

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

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.

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.

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

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.

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

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

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.

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.

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.