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"The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade."

Arendt, Hannah on twentieth century    Share


"All that Swinging Sixties nonsense, we all thought it was pass? at the time."

Bailey, David on twentieth century    Share

"Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents. In 1953, excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career."

Camus, Albert on twentieth century    Share

"The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude."

Camus, Albert on twentieth century    Share

"Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled."

Didion, Joan on twentieth century    Share

"Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that's going on right now in a big way."

Dylan, Bob on twentieth century    Share

"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around -- the music and the ideas."

Dylan, Bob on twentieth century    Share

"In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shite fundamentalists."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on twentieth century    Share

"The 1950s to me is darkness, hidden history, perversion behind most doors waiting to creep out. The 1950s to most people is kitsch and Mickey Mouse watches and all this intolerable stuff..."

Ellroy, James on twentieth century    Share

"We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on twentieth century    Share

"By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on twentieth century    Share

"For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part."

Garcia, Jerry on twentieth century    Share

"The fifties -- they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy."

Hardwick, Elizabeth on twentieth century    Share

"The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded."

Hemingway, Ernest on twentieth century    Share

"We stand today on the edge of a new frontier -- the frontier of the 1960s, a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils, a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats. The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises -- it is a set of challenges."

Kennedy, John F. on twentieth century    Share

"My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out."

Leary, Timothy on twentieth century    Share

"We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship."

Lennon, John on twentieth century    Share

"The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility."

Lennon, John on twentieth century    Share

"The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation."

Mailer, Norman on twentieth century    Share

"It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing."

Mccarthy, Mary on twentieth century    Share

"It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational."

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice on twentieth century    Share

"I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a learning experience. Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a learning experience. It makes me feel less stupid."

O'Rourke, P. J. on twentieth century    Share

"My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses."

Paglia, Camille on twentieth century    Share

"The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience."

Paglia, Camille on twentieth century    Share

"The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on."

Reagan, Nancy on twentieth century    Share

"If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication."

Rosen, Richard D. on twentieth century    Share

"This filthy twentieth century. I hate its guts."

Rowse, A. L. on twentieth century    Share

"I knew the youthfulness of the sixties: Talitha and Paul Getty lying on a starlit terrace in Marrakesh, beautiful and damned, and a whole generation assembled as if for eternity where the curtain of the past seemed to lift before an extraordinary future."

Saint-Laurent, Yves on twentieth century    Share

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