20th century Quote by Joan Collins

The whole history of the 20th century can be written in an utterly fascinating way.

— David Starkey

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 phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.

— Gertrude Stein

I believe the twenty-first century can become the most important century of human history. I think a new reality is emerging. Whether this view…

— Anonymous

Other centuries had their driving forces. What will ours have been when men look far back to it one day? Maybe it won't be…

— Moss Hart

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

The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.

— Terence McKenna

The twentieth century may well find historical status as the epoch in which man began to study himself as a scientific phenomenon.

— Timothy Leary

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

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

— George Friedman

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

— Dalai Lama

Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life…

— Wellington Mara