“Advertisers regularly con us into believing that we genuinely need one luxury after another. We are convinced that we must keep up with or even go one better than our neighbors. So we buy another dress, sports jacket or sports car and thereby force up the standard of living. The ever more affluent standard of living is the god of twentieth century North America and the adman is its prophet.” NeedsBelieveAmericaForceSportsCenturyCarStandardsDressesConvincedNeighborLuxuryProphetConsumerismTwentieth CenturyJacketsOverconsumptionNorth AmericaStandards Of LivingAffluentAdvertisersSports Cars Book:Rich Christians in an age of hunger: a Biblical study Source: Rich Christians in an age of hunger: a Biblical study
“It has been very humbling and gratifying to have these men as our role models. Your generation enabled America to close out the twentieth century as the greatest nation in the history of mankind, the only remaining superpower, the world's leading economy and the world's most respected and feared military force in the world - respected by our friends and allies, feared by our adversaries.” MenWorldHas BeensAmericaForceNationsRolesEconomyGenerationsMankindCenturyMilitaryModelsAlliesRole ModelsTwentieth CenturyAdversariesSuperpowerHumblingMilitary Force Author:Eric Shinseki
“The postwar [WWII] GI Bill of Rights - and the enthusiastic response to it on the part of America's veterans - signaled the shift to the knowledge society. Future historians may consider it the most important event of the twentieth century. We are clearly in the midst of this transformation; indeed, if history is any guide, it will not be completed until 2010 or 2020. But already it has changed the political, economic and moral landscape of the world.” IfsWorldMayImportantAmericaPoliticalMoralRightsEconomicCenturyEventsChangedTransformationBillsResponseGuidesLandscapeMidstHistorianVeteranEnthusiasticTwentieth CenturyWwiiBill Of RightsGisImportant Events Author:Peter Drucker
“Our opposition will never understand the Democratic Party. Our Party is--to the unpracticed eyes of the old Republican Tories--a mysterious contraption that usually seems to be moving in a thousand directions. What they don't know is what hurts them. For all that movement in the Democratic Party is caused by the internal combustion of creative ferment, of ideas, of people vigorously committed to the proposition that change and social progress are not only to be desired; they are necessities of twentieth-century America.” PeopleKnowsIdeasSeemsEyeAmericaMovingSocialHurtPartyCreativeProgressCenturyMovementRepublicanThousandDemocraticCommittedMysteriousOppositionInternalsPropositionsTwentieth CenturyDemocratic PartyMoving InSocial ProgressCombustion Author:Hubert H. Humphrey
“It is easy to be mindless in America, because dreaming of and living for a better tomorrow is the American way. ... The problem is, in the second half of the twentieth century, we have gotten so good at living for tomorrow that most of us spend very little time in the present.” WayLittlesMomentsProblemDreamAmericaEasyHalfCenturyTomorrowLive In The MomentTwentieth CenturyLittle TimeMindlessBetter Tomorrow Book:Are You the One for Me? ; Real Moments Source: Are You the One for Me? ; Real Moments
“What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.” AmericaCenturyFranceMaryTwentieth CenturyMarie Author:Frank Crowninshield