Death Quote by Timothy Snyder

“The European history of the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men can find…

— Timothy Snyder

“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

“It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their…

— Bram Stoker

“This Second Century appeals to me because it was the last century, for a very long period of time, in which men could think…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.

— Dalai Lama

The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

“As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is…

— Thomas Sowell

“Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.”

— Winston Churchill

“If humanity survives long enough to understand what he really was, they can dig him up and put on display the grandiose depravity of…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it.”

— Elizabeth Kostova

“Citizens, the nineteenth century is grand, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then there will be nothing more like old history. Men will…

— Victor Hugo

“We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt