The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the…

“The political history of the twentieth century is the story of greater and more direct political participation. And success kept expanding democracy's scope. Whatever…

— Fareed Zakaria

“The European history of the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men can find…

— Timothy Snyder

In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely has only…

— Eskinder Nega

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

— Noam Chomsky

“History can familiarize, and it can warn. In the late nineteenth century, just as in the late twentieth century, the expansion of global trade…

— Timothy Snyder

Future historians, I hope, will consider the American fast food industry a relic of the twentieth century--a set of attitudes, systems, and beliefs that…

— Eric Schlosser

Throughout the twentieth century and into the beginning of the twenty-first, the United States repeatedly used its military power, and that of its clandestine…

— Stephen Kinzer

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will…

— Freeman Dyson

Patronizing the Arts is a brilliantly nuanced assessment of why universities must become art patrons. Learning from the twentieth-century university's embrace of Big Science,…

— Peggy Phelan

Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as…

— Eric Schlosser

For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had…

— Khaled Hosseini

The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to…

— Harold Innis

It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all…

— Martin Amis

The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship,…

— John Ortberg

In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying…

— Simone Weil