The first decade of the twenty-first century was a crazy…

I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.

— David Eagleman

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy.

— Noah Feldman

I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.

— Peter Beard

By the end of the third decade of this century, all of American life - politics, international relations, our homes, our jobs, our industries,…

— Joseph J. Romm

“the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, political Islam in general, and the Muslim Brotherhood in particu lar, believed that Egypt's…

— Tarek Osman

Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a…

— John Archibald Wheeler

“We are spread across the country now, old and dying or dead already, and we have mostly acclimatized to the absurdity of daily life…

— Blake Crouch

“Now, old and dying or dead already, and we have mostly acclimatized to the absurdity of daily life in the fourth decade of the…

— Blake Crouch

I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.

— J. G. Ballard

In the time just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Perfidia opens, we were pre-psychologized. There were no concepts of identity, no politics…

— James Ellroy

“He [Ted Williams] was only a 23-year-old kid when he batted .406 in 1941, but then the season ended and our country came under…

— Tucker Elliot

If liberals had been in charge of the Arizona memorial, it would probably have featured an exhaustive exhibit about the internment of Japanese Americans…

— Mona Charen

Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, isolationism was an important, even dominant strand in U.S. politics. After the Second World War, this strand disappeared,…

— Anne Applebaum

I never slept as soundly as the night following Pearl Harbor. For I knew that The American Race would now be entering the war…

— Winston Churchill

The crisis of our diminishing water resources is just as severe (if less obviously immediate) as any wartime crisis we have ever faced. Our…

— Jim Wright