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«It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification -- the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life.»
Author: Alfred Korzybski
(Philosopher, Scientist)
| Keywords:
agreement, amusing, assumed, Discovery of, economic system, exhibit, finite, identification, insoluble, quarrels, semantic, The Discovery, twentieth, twentieth century
«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.»
Author: E. L. Doctorow
(Author, Editor)
| Keywords:
detriment, intimate, intimate with, personal relationship, personal relationships, twentieth, twentieth century
«Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.»
«In the twentieth century our highest praise is to call the Bible 'The World's Best Seller.' And it has come to be more and more difficult to say whether we think it is a best seller because it is great, or vice versa.»
«Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies? utopian images? can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.»
Author: Dennis Prager
| About:
Communism,
Perfection,
Utopia
| Keywords:
conform, conform to, forcefully, images, monstrous, societal, twentieth, twentieth century, unhappiness, Utopian, Utopians
«Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.»
Author: Lillian Hellman
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
nineteenth, nineteenth century, ruling, ruling class, Russia, The Ruling Class, twentieth century
«From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.»
Author: R. D. Laing
(psychiatrist)
| Keywords:
confronts, destroying, enterprise, mainly, Mother The, on the whole, potentialities, potentiality, subjected, twentieth, twentieths, twentieth century
«In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
God is dead, nineteenth, nineteenth century, twentieth, twentieths, twentieth century
«Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.»
«Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
art form, twentieth, twentieth century
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