Century Quote by Lauren Groff

I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but…

— Penelope Lively

I’m a big fan of history—applying the lessons as well as the joys and sadness. If we pay attention, we would see how we…

— Nikki Giovanni

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 twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever.…

— Anonymous

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

— Jean Chretien

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.

— Lauren Groff

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

Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values,…

— Peter Drucker

“Highly organized complex societies are delicate machines. It does not take much to bring them to ruin. ‘For want of a nail…the kingdom was…

— Paul Kriwaczek

The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have…

— Jared Diamond

“As C. S. Lewis regularly remarked, the chronological snobbery of the modern age (i.e. the assumption that anything that comes after around 1750 is…

— N.T. Wright

“The impersonal forces of over-population and over-organization, and the social engineers who are trying to direct these forces, are pushing us in the direction…

— Aldous Huxley