20th century Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Too bad that many more people know the Galileo legend than know the truth about Stalin’s brutal attack on science. And there is no…

— Anonymous

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to…

— Theodore Dalrymple

History had been man's effort to accomodate himself to what he could not do. Amereican history in the 20th century would, more than ever…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

The whole history of the 20th century can be written in an utterly fascinating way.

— David Starkey

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

There was engrained poetry and then when you look back at our history and in the 20th century, the last century, probably the greatest…

— Gavin Friday

When the history of the 20th century is written, there are going to be some pretty obscure people who are entitled to sainthood. And…

— Dick Morris

If I were called upon to identify briefly the principal trait of the entire 20th century... I would be unable to find anything more…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

— Hugh Mackay

I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.

— Alex Spanos

The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st…

— Óscar Arias

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce…

— Barack Obama

Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future…

— Robert Kiyosaki

I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.

— Michael Bennet