Age Quote by Arnold J. Toynbee

“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

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The 20th century was the century of war and blood. The 21st century is the century of dialogue.

— Dalai Lama

A century is about events. A decade is about people.

— George Friedman

Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The 21st century,…

— How to Dress Well

While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century…

— Stephen Bayley

The prosperity of the second half of the twentieth century was both a cause and an effect of social and scientific breakthroughs that have…

— David Bornstein

I am troubled that sometimes in our political discourse we spend all of our time focused on the challenges of the next century rather…

— Marco Rubio

The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

— Anonymous

“the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men can find themselves standing over death…

— Timothy Snyder

I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.

— N. T. Wright

The 20th Century was a bloodbath, and for all the frustrations and failures of the project to unify Europe, the last five decades have…

— Barack Obama