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“Until the Left took over American public education in the second half of the 20th century, it was generally excellent - look at the high level of eighth-grade exams from early in the 20th century and you will weep. The more money the Left has gotten for education - America now spends more per student than any country in the world - the worse the academic results. And the Left has removed God and dress codes from schools - with socially disastrous results.”

“By the end of the 20th century, "liberals" had again discredited themselves, to the point where they went back to calling themselves "progressives" to escape their past, much as people do when they declare bankruptcy.”

People Ends Past Century Calling 20th Century Bankruptcy

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Many of the wonderful achievements of the 20th century were the result of the pursuit of profits. Unfortunately, demagoguery has led to profits becoming a dirty word. Nonprofit is seen as more righteous, particularly when people pompously stand before us and declare, 'We're a nonprofit organization.'”

People Results Wonderful Century Becoming Achievement Organization Profit Pursuit Dirty Righteous 20th Century Nonprofits Dirty Words Demagoguery

Author:Walter E. Williams

“The 20th century was the century of war and blood. The 21st century is the century of dialogue.”

War Blood Century Dialogue 21st Century 20th Century

Author:Dalai Lama

“But the 20th century suffered "two" ideologies that led to genocides. The other one, Marxism, had no use for race, didn't believe in genes and denied that human nature was a meaningful concept. Clearly, it's not an emphasis on genes or evolution that is dangerous. It's the desire to remake humanity by coercive means (eugenics or social engineering) and the belief that humanity advances through a struggle in which superior groups (race or classes) triumph over inferior ones.”

“One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness and callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale.”

Made Sin Sacrifice Century Capitalism Doctrine Bitter Communism Selfishness Irony Pale 20th Century Accusing Callousness

Author:Thomas Sowell

“To those of us who have been following the climate debate for decades, the next few years will be electrifying. There is a high probability we will witness the crackup of one of the most influential scientific paradigms of the 20th century, and the implications for policy and global politics could be staggering.”

Years Has Beens Next Century Policy Climate Following Decades Debate Witness Probability 20th Century Influential Implications Paradigm Staggering

Author:Ross McKitrick

“In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.”

World Way Century New World 20th Century Parallels Continuum

Author:Terence McKenna

“To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.”

Two Three Language Century Poet Tasks Dimensions Rebel 20th Century

Author:Terence McKenna

“The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.”

Century Civilization Historical Boundaries 20th Century Dissolving

Author:Terence McKenna

“I've carried on, in that same tradition, with my kids. Aside from just his brilliance, in my estimation, I think he had one of the great imaginations of the 20th century. One of the reasons why the tradition carries on, all these years later, is because, as a parent, those are the books that you go to and pull off the shelf because they never stop delighting you.”

Thinking Years Book Reason Kids Parent Imagination Century Tradition Reason Why Carrie Shelves 20th Century Brilliance Estimation Great Imagination

Author:Christopher Meledandri

“Beatles was 20th-century folksong in the framework of capitalism; they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to communicate within that framework.”

Ifs Different Wanted Century Capitalism Communicate 20th Century Framework

Author:Yoko Ono

“It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extinguished more than one hundred million people.”

People Ifs Ideas Form Millions Economic Century Despair Hundred Socialism New Ideas 20th Century Stagnation

Author:Llewellyn Rockwell

“Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.”

“In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.”

Mean Self Century Cruelty 20th Century Alienation 19th Century Inhumanity Schizoid

Author:Erich Fromm

“It's a historical thing, up to the 19th century the English hated the French. Then in the 20th century the English started to hate the Germans - as we began to move alphabetically through the map of the world. Now, the year 2000, we are fine with the Germans... but the Hungarians are pissing us off.”

World Years Moving Hate Century Fine Historical Hated Maps 20th Century 19th Century Hungarians

Author:Eddie Izzard

“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.”

Men Firsts Made Sometimes Artist Century Tears Laughter Originals Take Me Seconds Bats 20th Century Charlie Violin Chaplin Funny Men

Author:Emo Philips

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

Thinking President Century Clinton 20th Century President Clinton

Author:Martin Sheen

“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.”

Way Littles Century Invention 20th Century

Author:David Spade

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

Gone Century 20th Century Wraps

Author:Jack Kroll

“Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century.”

Bigs Century Machines Awe 20th Century Cathedrals Awe Inspiring

Author:Daniel Kleppner

“In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.”

Thinking Men Whole Facts Happened Century Civilization Fascinating 20th Century

Author:Joan Collins

“The most significant event of the 20th century will be the fact that the North Americans speak English.”

Facts Speak Century Events Significant 20th Century Speak English Significant Events

Author:Otto von Bismarck

“The Gospel that worked in the 20th Century may not work in the 21st Century. The reason is because it is truncated. It only speaks of "Sin and Salvation" and not of the COSMIC GOSPEL that transforms all things.”

May Reason Speak Sin Century All Things Salvation Cosmic 21st Century 20th Century

Author:Peter Robinson

“I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social advance in the 20th century depended on the proliferation of inexpensive and reliable electricity.”

Humans Has Beens Earth Social Hours Century Materials Source Liberation Electricity 20th Century Proliferation Inexpensive

Author:Ross McKitrick

“The result of these ungodly unions was a race of very wicked and very powerful hybrid (half-fallen angel, half-human) offspring - the Nephilim - who corrupted, harassed, even killed mankind. Now, at the end of the 20th century, we have the return of "alien" entities with apparent supernatural powers.”

Humans Ends Results Powerful Race Half Mankind Century Return Angel Unions Aliens Fallen Wicked Entity 20th Century Very Powerful Offspring Hybrid Fallen Angels Supernatural Powers Nephilim

Author:Chuck Missler

“The fact that you couldn't see Alfred Hitchcock's first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn't see so many of F.W. Murnau's masterpieces, or that you couldn't see so many of Oscar Micheaux's really intriguing race melodramas, made with fierce independent spirit against all odds in '20s and '30s America. That stuff haunted me. They really did bring to life a sense of 20th Century history: cultural history, pop history, gender politics and race politics, socio economic history, all that stuff. It was bracing and instructive.”

“That is the onslaught. It has been going on a long time, I argue, but in the 20th century humans have certainly perfected it, extending domination to every single corner of the earth and our Homo sapiens population to more than 6 billion - until no place is untouched by despoliation.”

Humans Long Has Beens Earth Century Long Time Population Corners Arguing Billions 20th Century Domination Homo Sapiens Extending

Author:Kirkpatrick Sale

“At the beginning of the 20th century, before the migration began, 90 percent of all African-Americans were living in the South. By the end of the Great Migration, nearly half of them were living outside the South in the great cities of the North and West. So when this migration began, you had a really small number of people who were living in the North and they were surviving as porters or domestics or preachers - some had risen to levels of professional jobs - but they were, in some ways, protected because they were so small.”

People Way Ends Jobs Levels Numbers Cities Half Century Percent West South African American Protected Preacher 20th Century Surviving Risen Migration Great Cities Small Numbers

Author:Isabel Wilkerson

“We're not on a sustainable path in civilization. We're on an exponential growth curve, on which we perhaps always have been, but it has turned up sharply at the beginning of the 20th century.”

Has Beens Growth Path Century Civilization 20th Century Curves Exponential Growth

Author:Edgar Mitchell

“At the beginning of the 20th century, there were less than 3 billion people on the earth, closer to 2 billion. By all measures that we can come up with right now,. with the lifestyle and consumption pattern of the Western industrial civilization, we can probably sustain about 2 billion people on this earth. We already have over 6 billion. China and India are aspiring to come on as industrial nations, aspiring to the lifestyle of the Western world, and it simply can't happen.”

People World Happens Earth Nations Century Civilization Right Now India Western Patterns Come Up China Billions Lifestyle Consumption 20th Century Western World China And India

Author:Edgar Mitchell

“It's starting to catch hold, and in large measure it's because we're starting to understand that much of what we have talked about in ancient mythology and mystical experience and so forth can pretty well be modeled within the world of quantum physics. That's a 20th century phenomenon also.”

World Wells Century Starting Ancient Physics Mythology Phenomenon Quantum Mystical 20th Century Quantum Physics Mystical Experiences

Author:Edgar Mitchell

“The downside was that for 400 years, science has grown up, has arisen and developed as a purely materialist concept and avoided the subject of mind and consciousness, leaving it to the realm of religion. Only with the founding of quantum science in the early part of the 20th century have we realized that the Cartesian Duality is wrong, that body, mind, physicality do interact and they're interrelated.”

Years Mind Body Consciousness Subjects Century Concepts Leaving Realms Quantum 20th Century Founding Avoided Duality Physicality

Author:Edgar Mitchell

“Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have seen psychology grow up, and we've seen the development of neurophysiology and other much more sophisticated science, but only in the recent years have the tools of quantum mechanics been applied to anything representing human scale size.”

“It was a dogma throughout most of the 20th century that quantum science only applied to subatomic matter, and we now know that not to be true. One of the major discoveries was Quantum Holography.”

Knows Matter Century Majors Discovery Being True Dogma Quantum 20th Century True Ones

Author:Edgar Mitchell

“Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century.”

Views Economic Century Thinker 20th Century Hayek

Author:Vernon L. Smith

“One chronicler writes of an area of India during the end of the 20th century: Almost no-one in this slum was poor by Indian benchmarks. ... True, a few residents trapped rats and frogs and fried them for dinner. A few ate the scrub grass at the sewage lake edge. And these individuals, miserable souls, thereby made an inestimable contribution to their neighbors. They gave those slum dwellers who didn't fry rats and eat weeds a sense of their upward mobility.”

“In every major war we have fought in the 19th and 20th centuries. Americans have been asked to pay higher taxes - and nonessential programs have been cut - to support the military effort. Yet during this Iraq war, taxes have been lowered and domestic spending has climbed. In contrast to World War I, World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam, for most Americans this conflict has entailed no economic sacrifice. The only people really sacrificing for this war are the troops and their families.”

“What we have lived through, the 20th century, has been like a great party. Adults now have had the best time humanity has ever had. Now the party is over and the Earth is reckoning up.”

Has Beens Earth Humanity Party Century Adults 20th Century Best Times Reckoning Great Party

Author:James Lovelock

“Metro, built in the late 20th century, is the most escalator-dependent system in the world.”

World Century Late Built Dependent 20th Century Metro Escalators

Author:Robert James Thomson

“As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that.”

Knows Reason Know How Century Concerned Performances Critics Driven Historian 20th Century Integrating

Author:Roselee Goldberg

“You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.”

Humans Stills Moving Century Painting Walking Activity Speed Take Time 20th Century Human Activity Wrapping Wrapping Up

Author:Joe Bradley

“Radio - and perhaps airplanes, and then of course, the atom bomb - was the preeminent technology of the first half of the 20th century. It was how the Third Reich controlled its citizens, spread lies, and disseminated fear.”

Firsts Lying Courses Half Technology Century Citizens Thirds Radio Spread Bombs Controlled Atoms Airplane 20th Century Atom Bomb

Author:Anthony Doerr

“I did a lot of work with early 20th century attitudes, the kind of superficial notions and behavior that prompt people who don't know history very well to think that "people were different back then" - but beneath all that are characters who react in ways that we can all recognize, and will always be able to recognize.”

People Thinking Knows Way Wells Kind Different Character Able Attitude Century Behavior Notion Superficial 20th Century Prompts

Author:James Vance

“I don't quite see the 20th century as one of chaos. But I believe in certain inevitable outcomes of a materialist nature.”

Believe Certain I Believe Century Chaos I Believe In Inevitable Outcomes 20th Century

Author:Rachel Kushner

“I wanted to be an artist after all, and my teachers told me these were the best authors the 20th century had to offer. But these books sucked. They were so boring and sloppy and plotless. And Bob Dylan's lyrics seemed nonsensical to me - almost like he had just gotten high and written down whatever random thoughts occurred to him.”

Book Wanted Artist Teacher Written Century Offers Boring Bob 20th Century Dylan Sloppy Nonsensical So Boring Random Thoughts

Author:Simon Rich

“Even into the 20th century, women were still struggling in the Western world for rights that Islam had granted women in the 7th century: equal rights to education; the right to own and inherit property; to have a voice in the decisions affecting their lives; to be active, engaged, and valued members of society at all levels.”

World Stills Voice Decision Levels Struggle Rights Century Equal Members Property Islam Western Active Granted Engaged 20th Century Equal Rights Western World

Author:Queen Noor of Jordan

“One of the most influential women of the 20th century? Well, that may be overdoing it. When one thinks of really influential women, my mind turns to Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, ... some of the true political leaders in their own right.”

Thinking Mind Wells May Political Turns Leader Century 20th Century Influential Political Leaders Overdoing It

Author:William A. Rusher

“I don't think he'd [Andy Warhol] be that amazed because he was so driven to be the Picasso of the second half of the 20th century.”

Thinking Half Century Driven Amazed 20th Century Warhol

Author:Bob Colacello

“I was really interested in 20th century communalism and alternative communities, the boom of communes in the 60s and 70s. That led me back to the 19th century. I was shocked to find what I would describe as far more utopian ideas in the 19th century than in the 20th century. Not only were the ideas so extreme, but surprising people were adopting them.”

People Ideas Community Century Extremes Alternatives Surprising Shocked 20th Century 19th Century Utopian Adopting Communes Communalism

Author:Christine Jennings

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