20th century Quote by Stella Blum

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

— Charlton Heston

The twentieth century was about getting around. The twenty-first century will be about staying in a place worth staying in.

— James Howard Kunstler

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

— Adam Hochschild

I hate to say it, but I had a great time in World War II.

— Andy Rooney

It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between the community…

— Lauren Groff

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century

— Winston Churchill

“The Second World War signalled the creation of the military-industrial complex in Britain and elsewhere. This militarized economy, born out of an imperial system…

— Andrew Feinstein

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Some people would like the world to go back to the 1950s.

— William M. Daley

The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.

— P. J. O'Rourke

During the twentieth century, men fought on behalf of nationalism. Yet the wars they fought were also engendered by dislocations in world markets and…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski