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Twentieth Century Quotes

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If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness  (Twentieth Century Quotes) And in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were somewhere else  (Twentieth Century Quotes) 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  (Twentieth Century Quotes) One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable  (Twentieth Century Quotes) Thanks to the discoveries of astronomers in the twentieth century, we now know that the heat death is a myth. The heat death can never happen, and there is no paradox  (Twentieth Century Quotes) If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century  (Twentieth Century Quotes) Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends?  (Twentieth Century Quotes) Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks trying to hold it together... he saw the true face of the twentieth century and chose to become a reflection of it, a parody of it. No one else saw the joke. That’s why he was lonely  (Twentieth Century Quotes) 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  (Twentieth Century Quotes) 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  (Twentieth Century Quotes) Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press  (Twentieth Century Quotes) 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  (Twentieth Century Quotes) Einstein entertained counterintuitive notions that allowed him to pull physics from the mechanistic, clockwork universe of the eighteenth century up into the twentieth century  (Twentieth Century Quotes) The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value  (Twentieth Century Quotes) I’ve never regretted I was born too soon. I’m proud to be a child of the twentieth century. I’m satisfied to join its ranks on our side and fight for a new world  (Twentieth Century Quotes) One aim of the physical sciences has been to give an exact picture of the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable  (Twentieth Century Quotes) In a contrary and perhaps cruel way the twentieth century has relieved us of labor without at the same time relieving us of the conviction that only labor is meaningful  (Twentieth Century Quotes) In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it split apart, so that you had serious fiction and genre fiction  (Twentieth Century Quotes) When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it  (Twentieth Century Quotes) Death of a Salesman is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America  (Twentieth Century Quotes) 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  (Twentieth Century Quotes) By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs  (Twentieth Century Quotes) There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene  (Twentieth Century Quotes) The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause  (Twentieth Century Quotes) 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  (Twentieth Century Quotes) 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  (Twentieth Century Quotes) Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race  (Twentieth Century Quotes) Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too high. This may be the last opportunity to choose our own and our descendants’ destiny. Failing to choose or making the wrong choices may lead to catastrophe. But it must never be forgotten that the right choices could lead to a much better world  (Twentieth Century Quotes) This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to be better people came to be acknowledge, if not thoroughly understood, by a significantly large minority  (Twentieth Century Quotes) The twentieth century was marked by two broad trends: the regulation of capitalism and the deregulation of democracy. Both experiments overreached  (Twentieth Century Quotes)
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