Violence, factory politics - these things simply form some…

I've never regretted I was born too soon. I'm proud to be a child of the twentieth century. I'm satisfied to join its ranks…

— Naz?m Hikmet

New Orleans is a great place, a place of celebration. But on the other hand, there's a reality to it, there's violence, there's misguided…

— Tyrann Mathieu

“Peace is a deeper reality than violence." p. 231”

— Stanley Hauerwas

“The reality is this: Violence changes a person in permanent, profound, existential ways. Once you experience the horrible things one human being can do…

— Ph.D Michelle Stevens

Because European countries now resolve differences through negotiation and consensus, there's sometimes an assumption that the entire world functions in the same way. But…

— George W. Bush

Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

— Thomas Hobbes

“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

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

— Péter Esterházy

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

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