The late twentieth century has been the locus of a new…

“These people were the first to master a new kind of late twentieth-century life. They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack…

— J.G. Ballard

Judging by the pollution content of the atmosphere, I believe we have arrived at the late twentieth century.

— Leonard Nimoy

the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Social historians of the future no doubt will be amused by the fact that we late-twentieth-century Americans found it acceptable to discuss publicly in…

— Mary Ann Glendon

“Because in the late twentieth century, you couldn't seriously ask other people to think that you believed in honor and truth, and the purity…

— Michael Crichton

“Liberty Ale would become quite possibly the most important beer of the late twentieth century”

— Tom Acitelli

“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

What's interesting to me is that in the late twentieth century it seems that there's scarcely a part of the world that doesn't have…

— James C. Scott

“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