Quote by Tony Judt

“We inhabit, in ordinary daylight, a future that was unimaginably dark a few decades ago, when people found the end of the world easier…

— Rebecca Solnit

“Anytime things were going right for you, the future of the world seemed bright. Anytime they were going wrong, the imminent collapse of civilization…

— Ryan Boudinot

“Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one…

— Carl Lotus Becker

“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

“That was a brilliant reminder that looking at the world from the vantage point of other cultures can open us up to all kinds…

— Shawn Achor

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 sixties produced an anarchic mind-set that is great for imagining a world not yet in existence.”

— Walter Isaacson

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

— Winston Churchill

“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

“The man with no future, who existed only in the moment, was invisible to a world fixated on anywhere but where they actually were.”

— Matthew Mather

“A new generation forgets the specters that may have tormented the old… And yet, always, to all eternity, it is the same specter assailing…

— Halldór Laxness

I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.

— N. T. Wright