Action Quote by Eric Hoffer

“Fatally, the term 'barbarian' is the password that opens up the archives of the twentieth century. It refers to the despiser of achievement, the…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“The late twentieth century has been the locus of a new lurch on English’s time line in America, where oratorical, poetic, and compositional craft…

— John McWhorter

“Events had been set in motion whose echo would be heard a thousand and more generations from now.”

— J. Valor

“During the second half of the twentieth century, cross-fertilization among the disciplines of history, literature, sociology, and psychology led to scholarly awareness that historical…

— Miranda Wilcox

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

— Norman Mailer

And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the same grief,…

— Vasily Grossman

We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what…

— Anonymous

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

— Dalai Lama

The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years.

— Roland Merullo

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.

— James Fenton

“what was once associated with deafening, dangerous, and stultifying work could now be admired as historic creations and greeted with reverential, if only quasi-informed,…

— Kay S. Hymowitz

“Words are a mirror of their times. By looking at the areas in which the vocabulary of a language is expanding fastest in a…

— John Ayto