A great number of publications and movies on the history…

“Too bad that many more people know the Galileo legend than know the truth about Stalin’s brutal attack on science. And there is no…

— Anonymous

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to…

— Theodore Dalrymple

History had been man's effort to accomodate himself to what he could not do. Amereican history in the 20th century would, more than ever…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

The whole history of the 20th century can be written in an utterly fascinating way.

— David Starkey

The whole history of the 20th century is a history of resistance groups which are either nationalist or, in large parts of the Muslim…

— Tariq Ali

There was engrained poetry and then when you look back at our history and in the 20th century, the last century, probably the greatest…

— Gavin Friday

When the history of the 20th century is written, there are going to be some pretty obscure people who are entitled to sainthood. And…

— Dick Morris

If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century... I would be unable to find anything more…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

— Hugh Mackay

I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.

— Alex Spanos

The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st…

— Óscar Arias

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce…

— Barack Obama

Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future…

— Robert Kiyosaki

I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.

— Michael Bennet