Famous quotes containing the words twentieth century, conservative, friends and/or twentieth:
“Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers’ glory—to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“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.”
—E.L. (Edgar Lawrence)