Quotes about Twentieth century

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Two moral forces shaped how we think and live in this shining twentieth century: the Virgin, and the Dynamo. The Dynamo — Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
o — In the decision to use the bomb the base line had shifted down during the moral slide from the blockade to the area bombing of Germany and to the fire-bombing of Japan. Predictably one member of Stimson’s committee made the point that the ‘number of people that would be killed by the bomb would not be greater in general magnitude than the number already killed in fire raids’.
Writing of only one small part of the broader problem, namely the single-minded pursuit of individualistic 'rights,' [Do — D.A. Carson, The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism
In the moral realm, there is very little consensus left in Western countries over the proper basis of moral behavior. An — D.A. Carson, The Gagging of God: Christianity Confronts Pluralism
The beauty of the twentieth century is the charm of the hospital, the grace of the cemetery, of consumption and emaciati — Jean Lorrain, Monsieur De Phocas
Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the desp — Peter Sloterdijk
When I came out into the outside room again, I saw her shoe still lying there, where it had come off in the course of ou — Cornell Woolrich
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Whitaker Chambers