the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm…

“The late twentieth century has been the locus of a new lurch on English’s time line in America, where oratorical, poetic, and compositional craft…

— John McWhorter

“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

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

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

— Leonard Nimoy

The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean in this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I…

— Dan Quayle

It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between the community…

— Lauren Groff

You had a flood of immigrants, millions of them, coming to this country. What brought them here? It was the hope for a better…

— Milton Friedman

The whole history of the 20th century is a history of resistance groups which are either nationalist or, in large parts of the Muslim…

— Tariq Ali

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

— Tom Acitelli

“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

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

“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

A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam…

— Kurt Vonnegut

But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Antidepressants are the biggest fraud in the world. Number one, Prozac gives you a royal soft-on like you wouldn't believe, and number two you…

— Robert Evans