Famous quotes containing the words twentieth century, conservative, friends, twentieth and/or century:
“The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“It’s good for you to see your friends arrested. It hardens you. There’s no place in our New Order for sentimentalists.”
—Curtis Siodmak (1902–1988)
“The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“Other centuries had their driving forces. What will ours have been when men look far back to it one day? Maybe it won’t be the American Century, after all. Or the Russian Century or the Atomic Century. Wouldn’t it be wonderful, Phil, if it turned out to be everybody’s century, when people all over the world—free people—found a way to live together? I’d like to be around to see some of that, even the beginning.”
—Moss Hart (1904–1961)