20th century Quote by Alister E. McGrath

“The chief danger of the 20th century will be religion without the Holy Spirit, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics…

— William Booth

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

— Arthur C. Clarke

In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.

— Joan Collins

“The oft-cited charge that belief in God and religion has led to more wars and evil than anything else is as untrue as it…

— Dennis Prager

“THE TWENTIETH CENTURY was a period defined by the struggle for individual political, economic, and personal liberty against various forms of oppression, and marked…

— Tom Standage

Our tolerance of the intolerable found a low threshold as early as the late 1950s with the grotesque excesses of McCarthyism, which destroyed so…

— Pankaj Mishra

“We must face the fact that society is founded on intolerance. [. . .] We may prate of toleration as we will; but society…

— George Bernard Shaw

“Religious fundamentalism, magical thinking and self-delusion, have been justifications for some of the most horrific atrocities in human history.”

— Bryant McGill

The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.

— Napoleon Hill

Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.

— Dalai Lama

“The greatest threat to religion in any society is not persecution, but rather apathy born of irrelevance.”

— Sherman A. Jackson

Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no such thing…

— Henning Mankell