#twentieth century

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The twentieth century may tell us that we have nothing to be complacent about in the recent history of humankind; but it also tells us that there is nothing inevitable about tyranny.


Rowan D. Williams


#also #century #complacent #history #humankind

The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.


Anzia Yezierska


#century #children #ghetto #live #middle

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.


Juan Goytisolo


#century #conceptual #criticism #drama #etc

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing.


Art Spiegelman


#best #best way #century #comics #doing

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

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.


Norman Mailer


#each #event #horror #new #reverberation

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

Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.


Benito Mussolini


#fascism #history #known #religion #twentieth