Personal liberty Quote by Tom Standage

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

“the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men can find themselves standing over death…

— Timothy Snyder

The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked…

— Eric Schlosser

The 20th century was the century of war and blood. The 21st century is the century of dialogue.

— Dalai Lama

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

— Elizabeth Kostova

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

If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century, and therefore…

— Benito Mussolini

While the 20th century saw the world divided between a Communist East and a free and democratic West, new and different struggles define the…

— Pat Buchanan

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

— P. J. O'Rourke

“it was the wars of the twentieth century that wiped away the past to create the illusion that capitalism had been structurally transformed.”

— Thomas Piketty

“The revolutions of the twentieth century, the liberation of the masses by production, created private life but gave nothing to fill it with.”

— Saul Bellow