20th century Quote by Stephen Ambrose

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

— Adam Hochschild

War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.

— Anonymous

For many people in the U.N., the 1990s was the worst decade the organization experienced. This was the decade of Somalia, Srebrenica, of Rwanda…

— Andrew Mack

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Winston Churchill

There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.

— Kate DiCamillo

History has shown that at least one-half of every century is consumed in war.

— James Monroe

In fact, the 20th century I think was the most fascinating century and the whole of man civilization because so much happened.

— Joan Collins

The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the…

— Adam Schiff

The most horrible sort of war is civil war.

— George Friedman

Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when…

— Robyn Davidson

As is true with respect to other great evils, the measures by which war might be made altogether impossible for the future may well…

— Friedrich August von Hayek