Quotes of: Twentieth-century Keyword

In reality the puritans and the humanists were quite often the same people.

English Literature in the Sixteenth Century: Excluding Drama

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.

End the Fed

If birds can fend for themselves, it means there’s hope for our tomorrow.

Cybersex: A Nightmare of the 21st Century: The Rebirth of Armageddon

It is not what we do but how we feel doing what we do that matters.

Cybersex: A Nightmare of the 21st Century: The Rebirth of Armageddon

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers

Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.

The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers

It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.

The Will to Power

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

Pierre Bayle

Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.

Leslie Fiedler

...everywhere I am is true.

The Old Tea Seller: Life and Zen Poetry in 18th Century Kyoto

Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-century house, since most of America lacks seventeenth-century houses.

John Updike

The 21st century can and must be an American century. It began with terror, war, and economic calamity. It is our duty to steer it onto the path of freedom, peace, and prosperity.

Mitt Romney

My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century. That is certainly true. But so, too, are the issues of LGBTQ rights the unfinished business of the 21st century.

Chelsea Clinton

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us.

Robert Smithson

The Internet in the 21st Century is as important to our future as highways were in the 20th Century. Like a highway, the Internet must remain free and open for all - not determined by the highest bidders.

Chuck Schumer

The future historian will rank as one of the heroes of the nineteenth century. {Stanton's opinion of the great }

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

Christiane Amanpour

In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

David Hockney

I am troubled that sometimes in our political discourse we spend all of our time focused on the challenges of the next century rather than on the opportunities of the new century.

Marco Rubio

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

John Templeton