The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The 20th century peatlands ditching in Finland was the worst human environmental destruction action in Europe. — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an… — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Many of the wonderful achievements of the 20th century were the result of the pursuit of profits. Unfortunately, demagoguery has led to… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Think of Europe in the 20th century. Two World Wars generated by nationalism. France, Germany, Britain fighting with each other. — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than… — Margaret Beckett Copy Share Image
I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Angela Merkel embodies Germany's 20th century fate. It is not up to me to pass judgment on her place in history, but… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
At the turn of the 20th century, the disparity in literacy here in the U.S. largely came down to race. Nearly half… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
“I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
It should come as no surprise that writers take an interest in punctuation. I have been told that the dying words of… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the… — Jeff Healey Copy Share Image
Ironically, there is a history of black/Irish communion here in the states; Irish and African American brothers and sisters have often found… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Please remember one lesson of the 20th century. One cannot force happiness, impose happiness on nations by imposing any kind of utopia… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
The first autonomous cars date back to the late 20th century. But recent increases in sophistication and reductions in cost - reflected,… — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the… — Jean-Pierre Raffarin Copy Share Image
You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps. — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
