No major war or act of mass killing in the twentieth century began without the aggressors or perpetrators first claiming innocence and victimhood.
– Timothy Snyder
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- The [twentieth century] could well go down in history not so much as a century of progress but as -œthe century of superficiality. – Billy Graham
- i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time. – John Green
- i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time – John Green
- i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time. – John Green
- I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. Those seem to be the two choices. Everything else is just killing time. – John Green
- Everyone is allowed a weakness, even women of the twentieth century. – Laurie R King
- Christian art today should be twentieth-century art. – Francis A Schaeffer
- The disgrace of the church in the twentieth century is that more zeal is evident among Communists and cultists than among Christians. – William MacDonald
- Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. – Marshall McLuhan
- There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians. – Margot Lee Shetterly
- Psychotherapy isn’t a twentieth-century artifice imposed on nature, but the reinstatement of a natural healing process. – Patricia Love
- The idea that fast reading is good reading is a twentieth-century weed, springing out of the stony farmland cultivated by the computer manufacturers. – Susan Wise Bauer
- As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill. – Thomas Sowell
- I’m no goddam animal. I may be a stupid, fouled-up twentieth-century son of a bitch, but I’m no animal. Don’t gimme that. I’m no animal. – JD Salinger
- In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America—and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it. – Robert A Heinlein
- Collage is the twentieth century’s greatest innovation – Robert Motherwell
- It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. – Ron Paul
- We’re interested in the mass-merchandising of anything. If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we’d market them too – Alan Sugar
- Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move. – Clay Shirky
- And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder. – John Steinbeck
- Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women. – Maya Angelou
- Is there innocence in ignorance? And if there is, do we tolerate other for their innocence’s sake? – Claire North
- Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience… – Edith Wharton
- Other forces were at work besides conformism. But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible. – Timothy Snyder
- Poverty said the same thing, century after century, but in different kinds of sentences. – Martin Amis
- War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace. – Philippa Gregory
- Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends. – Scott Snyder
- Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he’s in his office. – Joseph Heller
- Every major accomplishment in a man’s life requires a major level of commitment. – Jim George
- I’m an art major. You’re a political science major. YOU go lay down the law. – CK Walker
- Life is too short to major the MINOR and MINOR the major. Make the main thing the main thing and the world will make you the MAIN man – Sesan Kareem
- The world is in A major…the earth revolves in A major, a low A. – Thomas Ades
- Life management is not about BUSYNESS; it is about PRODUCTIVENESS and EFFECTIVENESS -“ major on the major things in life, not the minors. – Farshad Asl
- The whole damn century would’ve made more sense backwards. Where we ended is worse than where we began. – Rebecca Makkai
- The whole damn century would’ve made more sense backwards. Where we ended is worse than where we began. – Rebecca Makkai
- People having victimhood attract imperious and authoritative individuals in their life – Sunday Adelaja
- The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy….Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness. – Phyllis Schlafly
- A thief is one who insists on sharing his victimhood. – Criss Jami
- Writing journal is for those people who find no interest in living a life of victimhood and limited personal freedom. – Deepak Burfiwala
- Writing journal is for those people who find no interest in living a life of victimhood and limited personal freedom. – Deepak Burfiwala