#twentieth century

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#deny #ever #existed #kill #obsessed

Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#appeared #century #china #christianity #earth

Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#greatest #president #reagan #ronald #ronald reagan

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#first #first time #get #jump #life

On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#basis #between #century #deeply #financial

The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude. ↗

— Albert Camus

#passion #real #real passion #servitude #twentieth

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#complete #flop #half #second #twentieth

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#believed #century #does #nineteenth #nineteenth century

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. ↗