20th Century Quotes - Page 3

• The rate of technological and human physiological change in the 20th century has been remarkable. Beyond that, a synergy between the improved technology and physiology is more than the simple addition of the two.

  Robert Fogel

  Technology, Simple, Two

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• After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles, fables on the pattern A+ B, a clear-sighted, sickly literature. No more poetry but analytic fantasy. Something monomaniacal. Things playing a more important part than people; love giving away to deductions and other forms of ideas, style, subject and interest. The basis of the novel transferred from the heart to the head, from the passion to the idea, from the drama to the denouement.

  Jules de Goncourt

  Drama, Reading, Passion

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• The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.

  Philip Shabecoff

  Nature, Environmental, Bombs

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• The Olympic Movement is a 20th century religion. Where there is no injustice of caste, of race, of family, of wealth.

  Avery Brundage

  Race, Religion, Movement

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• Charlie Chaplin is the greatest artist of the 20th century. He takes me from laughter to tears in seconds. And he was one of the very first funny men. It's like the original violins were made in Cremona and there's never been any better since. Sometimes the best come right off the bat.

  Emo Philips

  Laughter, Artist, Men

  Interview with Sanjiv Bhattacharya, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.

  Jeff Sharlet

  War, Struggle, Political

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Century, Lost

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• Suddenly, in the early 20th century, there were thousands of men with essentially nothing to do. The farm work, as well as other work, was being handled by machines.

  Peter Buffett

  Men, Machines, Century

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The 20th century was a century in which human rights were infringed upon in numerous parts of the world, and Japan also bears responsibility in that regard. I believe that we have to look at our own history with humility and think about our responsibility.

  Shinzo Abe

  Believe, Humility, Responsibility

  "U.S. 'only indispensable alliance'". Interview with Lally Weymouth, articles.chicagotribune.com. April 23, 2007.

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• It's the age old thing: If you want to get elected, blame immigrants. It worked in the 20th century and it works now, and it's heart-breaking to see people make the same mistakes. They're looking at a complicated world, but they just keep blaming immigrants, and it's really disturbing that people haven't got past that.

  Moby

  Mistake, Heart, Past

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Stayed up and watched a little spanktrovision. It's the American way. There's really nothing wrong with spanktrovision. One of the best inventions of the 1900s, 20th century.

  David Spade

  Littles, Way, Invention

  "David Spade: Take the Hit". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century.

  Paul Goldberger

  Atlanta, Cities, Denver

  "The Next American System". The Blueprint America Interview, www.pbs.org. May 20, 2009.

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• I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.

  Walter Murch

  Thinking, Age, Artistic

  Interview with Michael Wohl, www.peachpit.com. November 1, 2001.

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• Now if you think about the 20th century and the idea of visual vocabulary the album occupies a really important space in the cultural landscape and, above all.

  DJ Spooky

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Ideas

  Source: bigthink.com

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• You only had widespread literacy and books that people could afford in the middle of the 19th century. Did more people read poetry at the turn of the 20th century when there were about fifty million people?

  Robert Hass

  Book, People, Fifty

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I loved being at the studio (20th Century-Fox). After all, I started at 15, and I grew up there. But there comes a time when an actress stays too long in the same place. People get used to having you around, and they can`t think of you in a different light.

  Jeanne Crain

  Thinking, Light, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals.

  Jeff Sharlet

  Religious, Goal, Conservative

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The president who did the most for black Americans in 20th century history was Lyndon Johnson, and he got his hands dirty by dealing with Southern senators, Southern congressmen, horse trading with them, cajoling them, learning what not to talk about. And he got civil rights passed and Great Society programs. That should be the model. Get over yourself.

  Steve Inskeep

  Horse, Dirty, Rights

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Wrap up the 20th century; Fred Astaire is gone.

  Jack Kroll

  Gone, Century, Wraps

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• Fidel Castro is one of the most inspiring leaders of the 20th century.

  Tom Gjelten

  Leader, Most Inspiring, Century

  "Former Cuban Leader Fidel Castro Dies At Age 90". Interview with Scott Simon, kaxe.org. November 26, 2016.

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• I think he [President Clinton] was probably the brightest President of the 20th century.

  Martin Sheen

  Thinking, President, Clinton

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• By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.

  Sylvia Earle

  Turtles, Sharks, Years

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• Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.

  Michael Haneke

  Thinking, Excellence, Directors

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• I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves.

  Tadao Ando

  Fashion, Men, People

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• The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.

  Tony Blair

  Memories, War, Europe

  Tony Blair (2004). “Tony Blair in His Own Words”, Politicos Pub

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