“The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.”
Norman Mailer book The Naked and the Dead
Gen. Edward Cummings, in Pt. 1, Ch. 6
Source: The Naked and the Dead (1948)
Don Tarquinio (1905; repr. London: Chatto and Windus, 1941), Prologue, p. x
“The natural role of twentieth-century man is anxiety.”
Norman Mailer book The Naked and the Dead
Gen. Edward Cummings, in Pt. 1, Ch. 6
Source: The Naked and the Dead (1948)
“There was an outflow of people from India before the fifteenth century BC.”
F. E. Pargiter (1852–1927) British civil servant and orientalist
Ancient Indian Historical Tradition (1962)
R. G. Collingwood (1889–1943) British historian and philosopher
R. G. Collingwood (1937), as cited in: Patrick Suppes (1973), Logic, methodology and philosophy of science: Proceedings.
Paul Fussell (1924–2012) Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
Humanities interview (1996)
Context: I was very interested in the Great War, as it was called then, because it was the initial twentieth-century shock to European culture. By the time we got to the Second World War, everybody was more or less used to Europe being badly treated and people being killed in multitudes. The Great War introduced those themes to Western culture, and therefore it was an immense intellectual and cultural and social shock.
Robert Sherwood, who used to write speeches for Franklin D. Roosevelt, once noted that the cynicism about the Second War began before the firing of the first shot. By that time, we didn't need to be told by people like Remarque and Siegfried Sassoon how nasty war was. We knew that already, and we just had to pursue it in a sort of controlled despair. It didn't have the ironic shock value of the Great War.
And I chose to write about Britain because America was in that war a very, very little time compared to the British — just a few months, actually. The British were in it for four years, and it virtually destroyed British society.
“The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.”
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Wars I Have Seen (1945)
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…
Four Speeches on the Corporate State, Rome, (1935) pp. 39-40. Speech delivered to the workers in Milan. Eric Jabbari, Pierre Laroque and the Welfare State in Postwar France, Oxford University Press, (2012) p. 46
Context: Fascism establishes the real equality of individuals before the nation… the object of the regime in the economic field is to ensure higher social justice for the whole of the Italian people… What does social justice mean? It means work guaranteed, fair wages, decent homes, it means the possibility of continuous evolution and improvement. Nor is this enough. It means that the workers must enter more and more intimately into the productive process and share its necessary discipline… As the past century was the century of capitalist power, the twentieth century is the century of power and glory of labour.
“The greatest philosopher of the twentieth century.”
Werner Erhard (1935) Critical Thinker and Author
Werner Erhard on L. Ron Hubbard — quoted in [L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman?, 1987, Bent Corydon and Ronald DeWolf, 15, 0818404442]
Attributed
Samuel R. Delany book Flight from Nevèrÿon
What postmodern doesn’t?
Section 9.811 (p. 273)
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)
“Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.”
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …
quoted in Advertising Age, Sep. 3, 1976
1970s
Variant: Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century
Context: Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.