Famous quotes containing the words twentieth century, conservative, friends, twentieth and/or century:
“One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we’ve developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.”
—Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990)
“A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest ... of his head.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“Those friends have left.
Only stumps remain
in the thickets
and we’ve grown old, besides.
Love’s been cut off
at the roots.”
—Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)
“The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.”
—Lao-Tzu (6th century B.C.)