Twentieth Century Quotes - Page 16

• When I die, I want to be remembered as a woman who lived in the twentieth century and who dared to be a catalyst of change. I don't want to be remembered as the first black woman who went to Congress. And I don't even want to be remembered as the first woman who happened to be black to make a bid for the Presidency I want to be remembered as a woman who fought for change in the twentieth century. That's what I want.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Black, Want, Firsts

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• This is what we've been waiting for: finally, an unprecedented critical analysis of the history of Dutch design. Mienke Simon Thomas's Dutch Design is a book to have and to read: an important and richly detailed study of the cultural, economical and social-political context of twentieth-century design in the Netherlands.

  Wim Crouwel

  Book, Critical Analysis, Design

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• The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war.

  Norman Mailer

  War, Blessing, Boredom

  Norman Mailer (2003). “The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing”, p.164, Random House

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• Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

  Angela Carter

  Sexy, Fashion, Women

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Missing, Important, Looks

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• Ideas about the scope and meaning of freedom of speech do expand and contract with the times. At the moment, we live in an age that is very permissive, both legally and socially, on a wide range of subjects from Karl Marx to kinky sex. This has not always been the case. Things that even children freely see and read and hear today -- writings, pictures, words -- would have been banned as just plain obscene, even for adults, as recently as the middle of the twentieth century.

  Lawrence M. Friedman

  Sex, Children, Writing

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• I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

  Penelope Wilton

  Century, Close Relationship

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• We have faith that future generations will know here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Ignorance, Fighting

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• The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line, -- the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Men, Islands, Race

  The Souls of Black Folk ch. 2 (1903)

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• The shock of twentieth-century technology numbed our brains and we are just beginning to notice the spiritual and social debris that our technology has strewn about us.

  Neil Postman

  Spiritual, Technology, Brain

  Neil Postman (2011). “The Disappearance of Childhood”, p.146, Vintage

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• The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.

  Henri Bergson

  Philosophical, Mind, Tasks

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• 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.

  Robertson Davies

  Beauty, Achievement, Today

  Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin

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• Japan had a more radical experience of future shock than any other nation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. They were this feudal place, locked in the past, but then they bought the whole Industrial Revolution kit from England, blew their cultural brains out with it, became the first industrialized Asian nation, tried to take over their side of the world, got nuked by the United States for their trouble, and discovered Steve McQueen! Their take on iconic menswear emerges from that matrix.

  William Gibson

  Past, Japan, Brain

  Source: www.heddels.com

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• We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!

  Jim Elliot

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

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• Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. When it's a question of typography, why not? Poets have done beautiful things with typography - Apollinaire's 'Calligrammes,' that sort of thing.

  James Fenton

  Beautiful, Lyric Poetry, Musical

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• The trouble with Christianity was that by about 150, there were hardly any Jews left in the Christian church, and so from that time until the last part of the twentieth century, the only people reading the gospels and interpreting the gospels and writing commentaries on the gospels were gentiles who were simply ignorant of the Jewish background, and I just thought they were prejudiced.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• 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.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Government, People, Facts

  Interview in Writers at Work, 1988.

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• When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism.

  Martin Filler

  Accomplishment, Survivor, Oscars

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• 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.

  Robert A. Dahl

  Men, Tyrants, Democracy

  Robert A. Dahl (2015). “On Democracy”, p.13, Yale University Press

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• I've always thought photography was an art form, but it had very low appreciation in the beginning, except for some Europeans, and of course Stieglitz. Stieglitz always considered photography to be an art form and is the "father" of the creative concepts of the twentieth century.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Appreciation, Art

  Source: www.tribalartasia.com

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• We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place in the twentieth century are just not going to work. We've run out of stuff. Our big problems are going to be energy supplies and food supplies. This is not a right-left issue.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Issues, Growing

  Source: progressive.org

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• To have a great university library near you with plenty of archives of all the journals that you want to research in the twentieth century is a remarkable asset, and I spend a day, maybe two days a week in that library. I just plain love it.

  John Shelby Spong

  Two, Library, Archives

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift was made toward the cultivation of unbounded desire. We must appreciate this to realize that late modern consumption, consumption as we now know it, is not fundamentally about materialism or the consumption of physical goods. Affluence and consumer-oriented capitalism have moved us well beyond the undeniable efficiencies and benefits of refrigeration and indoor plumbing.

  Rodney Clapp

  Appreciate, Desire, Benefits

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• It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all the good ones do, and that the great fashion for gloom and grimness was in fact a false path that certain writers took, I think in response to the horrors of the first half of the twentieth century.

  Martin Amis

  Fashion, Thinking, Half

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

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• In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent, is insanity.

  Susan Sontag

  Spiritual, Insanity, Feelings

  Susan Sontag (1979). “Illness as metaphor”, Vintage

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