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«The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democrac»

«The problem lay buried, unspoken for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban housewife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night, she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question: ''Is this all?''»

«One day men will look back and say i gave birth to the twentieth century.»

«Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.»

«The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century»

«The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.»

«The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen»

«From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.»

«In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead»

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