#20th century

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#bureaucrats #century #dictators #done #faceless

When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#18th century #20th century #century #finished #finished work

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#century #conflicts #depression #disgraced #dozen

When I left 20th Century-Fox to freelance, my agent believed that getting big money was the way to establish real importance in our industry. ↗

— Loretta Young

#agent #believed #big #establish #freelance

The United States condoned dictatorships in Latin America for much of the 20th century. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#america #century #dictatorships #latin #latin america

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#advertising #any #cause #century #done

The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade. ↗

— Nils-Axel Morner

#acceleration #any #century #changes #decade

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#century #religion #sex #substitute

It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

#21st century #allow #century #european #even

It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century. ↗

— William Labov

#african #african american #american #appears #century