20th century Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

“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

I don't seem to fit really into the 20th Century

— Charlton Heston

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

— Adam Hochschild

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

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.

— Jeff Sharlet

I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.

— Ricky Jay

“History can familiarize, and it can warn. In the late nineteenth century, just as in the late twentieth century, the expansion of global trade…

— Timothy Snyder

I was really interested in 20th century communalism and alternative communities, the boom of communes in the 60s and 70s. That led me back…

— Christine Jennings

Our ambitions as a country in the mid-20th century reflected the global dynamics in a post-World War 2 international order.

— Michael Waltz

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

I don't quite see the 20th century as one of chaos. But I believe in certain inevitable outcomes of a materialist nature.

— Rachel Kushner

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb