Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents…

It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: "youth" is the…

— Philippe Aries

“Parents feel a greater connection to their faith community when they observe visible ways the church makes accommodations for their child. Anticipating the individual…

— Amy Fenton Lee

My parents' approach to everything was through the lens of compassion and empathy. The only way to educate those who ridicule you or judge…

— Cedella Marley

The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination of (provisional)…

— Philippe Aries

Suicide is a whispered word, inappropriate for polite company. Family and friends often pretend they do not hear the word's dread sound even when…

— Earl A Grollman

We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place in the…

— Margaret Atwood

The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living…

— S. Jay Olshansky

“Bureaucracy will be the deity of the twentieth century.”

— Péter Esterházy

“I mean, this was the second half of the twentieth century, for pity’s sake, and they still saw communism as the road to utopia.”

— Masaji Ishikawa

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

“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

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