20th century Quote by David Starkey

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been…

— Clifford Geertz

A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the…

— T.C. Boyle

What is fascinating to me is the way I view everything in terms of parallels and connections. When I read about Achilles and Odysseus…

— Ken Liu

We grew up in my family thinking that politics was a really fascinating way to spend one's career and a way to be involved…

— John F. Kennedy Jr

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products…

— Thomas Frank

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

A great number of publications and movies on the history of the 20th century - albeit of uneven quality - are evidence of a…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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 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

In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had…

— David Starkey