E. L. Doctorow
E. L. Doctorow

In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.

Eavan Boland
Eavan Boland

The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.

Ellen Key
Ellen Key

The storm and stress period of women and the new social and psychological formations thereby entailed must indeed extend far into the twentieth century. This period of conflict will cease only when woman within and out of marriage shall have received legal equality with man.

Erich Fromm
Erich Fromm

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

Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro

During the second half of the twentieth century, I had the privilege of living through years of intensive erudition, and I realized that Canadians, located in the northernmost region of this hemisphere, were always respectful towards our country.

Freeman Dyson
Freeman Dyson

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology.

Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein

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

Harry Shearer
Harry Shearer

To me, the funniest American of the Twentieth Century is Richard Nixon because he had the most to hide, and he was so bad at hiding it. To me, that's what's really funny - people who think they're doing a great job of hiding stuff, and it just keeps leaking out.

Helen Reddy
Helen Reddy

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it.

Henri Bergson
Henri Bergson

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind.