The whole history of the 20th century can be written in an…

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been…

— Clifford Geertz

A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the…

— T.C. Boyle

What is fascinating to me is the way I view everything in terms of parallels and connections. When I read about Achilles and Odysseus…

— Ken Liu

We grew up in my family thinking that politics was a really fascinating way to spend one's career and a way to be involved…

— John F. Kennedy Jr

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products…

— Thomas Frank

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

A great number of publications and movies on the history of the 20th century - albeit of uneven quality - are evidence of a…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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 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

In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had…

— David Starkey

My biggest poetic influences are probably 20th-century British and Irish poets. So I suppose I'm always listening for the music I associate with that…

— David Starkey

In the early 20th century the monarchy was held up as the archetypical virtuous British family. In the late 20th century it became the…

— David Starkey

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

— Michael Bennet