Quotes · Skopia

6 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Topic·20th century✕clear

In a century which attempts to tear the heart out of every mystery, fashion guards its secret well, and is the best possible proof that there is still magic abroad.

1956

★ 3.5

If God has died in the blare of the twentieth century and in houses too new and cheap to be haunted, one must seek him in the old quiet places, where he might still live on in retirement.

1978

★ 3.4

Speech · Political speech

What a century it has been. America became the world's mightiest industrial power, saved the world from tyranny in two World Wars and a long Cold War, and time and again reached out across the globe to millions who, like us, longed for the blessings of liberty.

Second Inaugural Address of Bill Clinton · 1997

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

The first half of this century has been marked by unprecedented and brutal attacks on the rights of man, and by the two most frightful wars in history. The supreme need of our time is for men to learn to live together in peace and harmony.

Second Inaugural Address of Harry Truman · 1949

★ 1.9

Essay · Magazine

The horror of the 20th Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

1969

★ 1.9

Essay · Magazine

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any nobility of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an Amirian century.

1941

★ 1.8