Famous quotes containing the words twentieth century, conservative, friends, twentieth and/or century:
“... the nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. Not.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable, submissive and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways.”
—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)
“I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.”
—18th century English proverb, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)