But by the fourth decade of the twentieth century all the…

With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an…

— Ralph Adams Cram

“For at the beginning of the twentieth century, the nation had been struggling to find its way. Terror had raged, a second civil war…

— Howard Blum

“The heirs of the French, English, and American revolutions had partly believed in their own phrases about the rights of man, freedom of speech,…

— George Orwell

“The idea of an earthly paradise in which men should live together in a state of brotherhood, without laws and without brute labor, had…

— George Orwell

“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

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