The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

Once Europe's colonial empires were sent into deep decline, thanks to World War II, America became globalization's primary replicating force, integrating Asia into its…

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

“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

The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.

— Simone Weil

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.

— John Rothenstein

The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one…

— Anzia Yezierska

Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity.

— Robert H. Schuller

Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse set of…

— Rick Perlstein

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

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

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

— Brian Eno

“In the second half of the twentieth century humankind almost obliterated itself in an argument about production methods.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that. Then it…

— James Gleick

One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the twentieth century.

— Jack the Ripper

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

— Péter Esterházy