20th century · Skopia

Showing 4,302 quotes from the 20th century

Speech · Political speech

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I Have a Dream · 1963

★ 9.9

Novel · Dystopian fiction

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.

Nineteen Eighty-Four · 1949

★ 9.8

Song · Pop music

Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky.

Imagine · 1971

★ 9.7

Speech · Political speech

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

First Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1933

★ 9.6

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.

The Second Coming · 1920

★ 9.6

That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.

1969

★ 9.5

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –– I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

The Road Not Taken · 1916

★ 9.5

Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Winston Churchill

1947

★ 9.4

Song · Protest music · Folk music

For the loser now will be later to win, For the times they are a-changin'.

The Times They Are a-Changin' (song) · 1964

★ 9.2

Novel · Allegory · Dystopian fiction

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Animal Farm · 1945

★ 9.1

Article · Newspaper

History is written by the winners.

1944

★ 9.1

This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.

1925

★ 9.1

Interview · Newspaper

Because it's there.

The New York Times · 1923

★ 9.0

The customer is always right.

1905

★ 9.0

Speech · Political speech

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.

John F. Kennedy

Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy · 1961

★ 9.0

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee!

1964

★ 9.0

Speech · Political speech

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

1987

★ 9.0

Interview · Newspapers

History is more or less bunk.

1916

★ 8.9

It ain't over till it's over.

1973

★ 8.9

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

The Second Coming · 1920

★ 8.9

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