Atrocities Quote by Eric Hoffer

“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 nineteenth century was naive (February 23) because it did not know the end of the story. It did not know what happens when…

— Eric Hoffer

“This emphasis calls into question some of the most ingrained insights into the history of the modern world—for example, conceptualizing the nineteenth century, as…

— Sven Beckert

It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes…

— Anonymous

Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new…

— Eric Hoffer

The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force…

— George Gilder

“It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their…

— Bram Stoker

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.

— Stephen Ambrose

The greatest historical events in the twentieth century - in fact, in all of human history - have been the overthrow of capitalism and…

— Grover Furr

“Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom that convulsed Germany and at last drove Roosevelt to issue a public condemnation. He told reporters he “could scarcely believe…

— Erik Larson

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

— Dalai Lama

“The whole difference between the nineteenth century and the twentieth century could be summed up in two words, graveyard and cemetery.”

— Robert Hass