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“Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.”

Made Century Roots Grass Twentieth Century Nineteenth Century Populism Progressivism

“A word to the wise to all the children of the twentieth century, whether their concern be pediatrics or geriatrics, whether they crawl on hands and knees and wear diapers or walk with a cane and comb their beards. There's a wondrous magic to Christmas, and there's a special power reserved for little people. In short, there's nothing mightier than the meek, and a merry Christmas to each and all.”

“So long as our textbooks hide from us the roles that people of color have played in exploration, from at least 6000 BC to the twentieth century, they encourage us to look to Europe and its extensions as the seat of all knowledge and intelligence. So long as they say “discover,” they imply that whites are the only people who really matter. So long as they simply celebrate Columbus, rather than teach both sides of his exploit, they encourage us to identify with white Western exploitation rather than study it.”

Source: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as Twentieth Century Americans. We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. For the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.”

“I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.”

Accepting Atheism Century Positive Atheism Guides Mythology Decline Twentieth Century Hebrew

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“We believe that there is one economic lesson which our twentieth century experience has demonstrated conclusively-that America can no more survive and grow without big business than it can survive and grow without small business.... the two are interdependent. You cannot strengthen one by weakening the other, and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the legs of a giant.”

“... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.”

Different Real Matter Use Reality Life Is Century Strange Realistic Being Real Realism Earnest Twentieth Century Here And Now No Point

Book:Wars I have seen

Source: Wars I have seen

“The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.”

Nature Century Events Phenomenon Splendid Twentieth Century

Author:Gertrude Stein

“The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the period when the sovereign assumed title to all wealth of the realm. It was the struggle for freedom from these encroachments of the state that chiefly marked the Nineteenth Century, and established everywhere constitutional regimes of limited authority. In the Twentieth Century, however, we have witnessed a gradual and almost unrestricted movement back to state authoritarianism, primarily in the economic sphere, accompanied by the spread of state monopoly and intervention.”

“We have imagined ourselves a special creation, set apart from other humans. In the last twentieth century, we see that our povertyis as absolute as that of the poorest nations. We have attempted to deny the human condition in our quest for power after power. It would be well for us to rejoin the human race, to accept our essential poverty as a gift, and to share our material wealth with those in need.”

“The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?”

Knows Want Form Century Guilty Twentieth Century Thrillers Cardinals

Book:In Transit

Source: In Transit

“Shopping malls are liquid TVs for the end of the twentieth century. A whole micro-circuitry of desire, ideology and expenditure for processed bodies drifting through the cyber-space of ultracapitalism.”

Ends Whole Body Desire Space Century Tvs Ideology Shopping Twentieth Century Liquid Malls Drifting Expenditures Cyber

Author:Arthur Kroker

“F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for theeighteenth century reader, the most frivolous of diversions--did not, by the middle of the twentieth century, make you a better person in some way, then you might as well flush the offending volume down the toilet, which was by far the best place for the undigested excreta of dubious nourishment.”

Source: Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings

“[Heisenberg's seminal 1925 paper initiating quantum mechanics marked] one of the great jumps—perhaps the greatest—in the development of twentieth century physics.”

Century Development Paper Physics Quantum Mechanic Twentieth Century Quantum Mechanics

Author:Abraham Pais

“The twentieth-century artist who uses symbols is alienated because the system of symbols is a private one. After you have dealt with the symbols you are still private, you are still lonely, because you are not sure anyone will understand it except yourself. The ransom of privacy is that you are alone.”

Stills Use Artist Century Loneliness Lonely Symbols Not Sure Privacy Twentieth Century Symbolism Ransom

Author:Louise Bourgeois

“The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.”

Philosophy Reality Three Names Views Century Mathematics Point Of View Doctrine Historian Realism Twentieth Century Medieval Surveys

Author:Willard Van Orman Quine

“The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital social role for men. At stake is nothing less than the success of the American experiment. For unless we reverse the trend of fatherlessness, no other set of accomplishments--not economic growth or prison construction or welfare reform or better schools--will succeed in arresting the decline of child well-being and the spread of male violence. To tolerate the trend of fatherlessness is to accept the inevitability of continued social recession.”

“If the twentieth century is to be better than the nineteenth, it will be because there are among us men who walk in Priestley's footsteps....To all eternity, the sum of truth and right will have been increased by their means; to all eternity, falsehoods and injustice will be the weaker because they have lived.”

Ifs Men Mean Has Beens Walks Century Eternity Injustice Falsehood Twentieth Century Footsteps

Author:Thomas Huxley

“The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination of (provisional) purity, physical strength, naturism, spontaneity and joie de vivre which was to make the adolescent the hero of our twentieth century, the century of adolescence.”

Firsts Music Modern Century Strength Hero First Time Combination Purity Adolescence Typical Twentieth Century Spontaneity Modern Times Wagner Physical Strength Joie De Vivre

Book:Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life

Source: Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life

“Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of Big Science, Garber argues that twenty-first-century universities must rigorously devote their attention to Big Art. Provocative, witty, and layered, Patronizing the Arts cogently demonstrates the advantages for both art and the university in this new and radical alliance.”

Firsts Art Bigs Attention Century Art Is Advantage Twenties Embrace University Witty Arguing Radical Twentieth Century Alliances Assessment Provocative Patron Patronizing

Author:Peggy Phelan

“Up until Prohibition, an apple grown in America was far less likely to be eaten than to wind up in a barrel of cider. ("Hard" cider is a twentieth-century term, redundant before then since virtually all cider was hard until modern refrigeration allowed people to keep sweet cider sweet.)”

People Hard America Term Modern Century Sweet Wind Apples Twentieth Century Prohibition Barrels Redundant Cider Apple Cider

Book:The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

Source: The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

“Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.”

Dream Joy Century Adventure Ancestor Twentieth Century Richness

Author:Arthur Compton

“The twentieth century provides little or no evidence in any corner of the globe to support the contention that religion causes most human conflict.”

Humans Littles Religion Causes Support Century Conflict Evidence Corners Globes Twentieth Century Contention

Author:Michael Medved

“It is, then, the strife of all honorable men and women of the twentieth century to see that in the future competition of the races the survival of the fittest shall mean the triumph of the good, the beautiful, and the true; that we may be able to preserve for future civilization all that is really fine and noble and strong, and not continue to put a premium on greed and imprudence and cruelty.”

“The twentieth century had dispensed with the formal declaration of war and introduced the fifth column, sabotage, cold war, and war by proxy, but that was only the begining. Summit meetings for disarmament pursued mutual understanding and a balance of power but were also held to learn the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy. The world of the war-or-peace alternative became a world in which war was peace and peace war.”

Source: Peace on Earth

“Like twentieth-century Iran, the remnant of the Persian Empire, Ethiopia under Haile Selassie attempted to preserve the absolutist state throught an accommodation with modernizing forces in his own terms without completely subduing traditionalists. This was not a strategy of Haile Selassie's own choosing. Instead, he was overtaken by events and forced to deal with contradictions that were from the very beginning too formidable to be managed in the long term.”

Long States Force Term Deals Century Events Strategy Preserves Long Term Contradiction Empires Iran Twentieth Century Formidable Persian Remnants Accommodations Ethiopia

Author:Haile Selassie

“The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.”

Problem Nations Social Century Capitalism Civilized Sanity Individualism Twentieth Century Nineteenth Century Social Problems Aberration Civilized Nations

Author:Albion Woodbury Small

“The theory [before the twentieth century] ... was that all the jobs in the world belonged by right to men, and that only men were by nature entitled to wages. If a woman earned money, outside domestic service, it was because some misfortune had deprived her of masculine protection.”

Ifs Men World Jobs Century Theory Protection Misfortunes Entitled Wages Masculine Deprived Twentieth Century

Author:Rheta Childe Dorr

“It is my opinion that the Christian conception of God current in these middle years of the twentieth century is so decadent as to be utterly beneath the dignity of the Most High God and actually to constitute for professed believers something amounting to a moral calamity.”

Years Christian Moral Opinion Middle Century Dignity Currents Believer Conception Twentieth Century Calamity

Book:The Knowledge of the Holy

Source: The Knowledge of the Holy

“What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.”

Different Together Culture Social Voice Century Late Poetic Fabric Twentieth Century Convergence American Poetry

Author:Adrienne Rich

“One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.”

Ifs Needs Humans Has Beens Term Violence Century Madness Twentieth Century Climax

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“The world is a colony of the US. The twentieth century was the US's century.”

World Century Twentieth Century Colony

Author:Bill Henson

“What's interesting to me is that in the late twentieth century it seems that there's scarcely a part of the world that doesn't have some capitalist return that can be realized providing that this area's made accessible and resources can be extracted from it.”

World Made Seems Interesting Century Return Late Resources Areas Capitalist Providing Twentieth Century

Author:James C. Scott

“I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and a saint as a human being. Though vilified by his original community of Freudians, he never became bitter. He died a feminist and deeply committed to social justice, in 1939....His deep understanding of creativity makes him a mentor for all of us living in a postmodern world....I believe that Art and Artist, especially chapters 12 to 14, may well emerge as the most valuable psychoanalysis of the spiritual life in our time.”

“I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.”

Thinking Self Psychology Century Majors Reflection Catastrophe Twentieth Century Self Reflection

Author:Werner Herzog

“Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.”

People Feels Reality Culture Emotion Century Tvs Disease Theater Pops Symbols Opera Idols Inability Twentieth Century Soap Soap Operas Movie Theater Clusters

Author:Jim Morrison

“Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted by the public at large, who will continue to regard it with incomprehension, outrage and repugnance.”

Matter Causes Century Music Is Regard Accepted Champion Urges Twentieth Century Outrage Incomprehension

Book:The Amis collection: selected non-fiction, 1954-1990

Source: The Amis collection: selected non-fiction, 1954-1990

“Humanism is an overemphasis on human worth and ability, leading man to glorify himself instead of God...While its historical forms may vary, humanism inevitably leads people away from God and spiritual concerns. It promotes the false idea that man is good and that he is superior to God. Secular Humanism of the twentieth century altogether rejects belief in God and worships man as God. The pride of humanism will not go unpunished.”

“It's the Twentieth Century ... no more miracles.”

Century Miracle Twentieth Century

Author:Clifford Odets

“I challenged myself to write/direct a romantic comedy. People trash talk the rom com, but it's one of the oldest cinematic genres, with stellar origins like Twentieth Century and Trouble in Paradise. I think as audiences lost their innocence, the genre lost its suspense. To create suspense, you need obstacles, so I gave my couple an obstacle that very few people ever overcome: their own behavior and their past.”

“The development of physics in the twentieth century already has transformed the consciousness of those involved with it. The study (of modern physics) produces insights into the nature of reality very similar to those produced by the study of eastern philosophy.”

Philosophy Reality Consciousness Study Modern Century Produce Development Involved Insight Physics Transformed Eastern Twentieth Century Eastern Philosophy Modern Physics

Author:Gary Zukav

“It remained for the twentieth century to discover that locked within the atom is the energy of the sun itself. For this energy to be released, however, the atom must be bombarded from without. So too, locked in every human being is a store of love that partakes of the divine-the imago dei-image of God, it is sometimes called. And it too can be activated only through bombardment, in its case love's bombardment”

Humans Sometimes Energy Human Beings Cases Sun Century Divine Stores Atoms Locked Twentieth Century God Image Bombarded

Author:Huston Smith

“Worldwide, the twentieth century has seen the rise of extraordinary concentrations of economic and political power - evoking the people as the source of power while simultaneously privatizing its most meaningful exercise. Democracy always seems to be at least slightly elusive under such conditions.”

People Seems Political Democracy Economic Conditions Century Source Exercise Extraordinary Meaningful Concentration Twentieth Century Elusive Political Power Most Meaningful

Author:Thomas L. Dumm

“Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.”

Looks Parent Century Approach Invention Relief Survivor Dread Adolescence Twentieth Century

Book:A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life

Source: A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life

“Throughout the twentieth century and into the beginning of the twenty-first, the United States repeatedly used its military power, and that of its clandestine services, to overthrow governments that refused to protect American interests. Each time, it cloaked its intervention in the rhetoric of national security and liberation. In most cases, however, it acted mainly for economic reasons-specifically to establish, promote and defend the right of Americans to do business around the world without interference.”

Source: Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq

“The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less degenerate capitalism.”

Challenges Decision Century Produce Capitalism Financial Architecture Twentieth Century Degenerates

Author:Will Hutton

“It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy.”

Ifs Christian Church White Records Century Tragedy Height Historian White Supremacy Twentieth Century Supremacy

Book:Strength to Love

Source: Strength to Love

“Nothing will convince and convict those around us like the peaceful and positive way you and I respond to our twentieth century hurts and distress. The unbelieving world-your neighbors, the guy at the gas station, the postman, the lady at the cleaners, your boss at work-is observing the way we undergo our trials.”

World Way Guy Hurt Century Neighbor Trials Peaceful Gas Convince Stations Boss Distress Observing Twentieth Century Cleaners Convicts Gas Stations Postman

Author:Joni Eareckson Tada

“Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.”

Games Struggle Century Football Baseball Technological Twentieth Century Nineteenth Century

Book:The Best of Brain Droppings

Source: The Best of Brain Droppings

“Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a social commentator - like the great Victorians, a realist in his way. But he isn't at all like that. His genre is actually more like a fairy tale - weird transformations, long voyages from which people come back altered, parental mysteries, semi-magical twists.”

People Way Long Social Mystery Century Transformation Tales Genre Fairy Fairy Tale Twists Misunderstood Twentieth Century Voyages Altered Commentators Realist Parental Dickens Genre Is

Author:Martin Amis

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