20th century Quote by Tony Judt

The thing that intrigues me about Matthew is that I don't believe anybody would read it if they aren't Jewish and understand it. And…

— John Shelby Spong

The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.

— Iqbal Quadir

Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what…

— Antony Beevor

The Windrush era is a very important part of British history as it helps us understand how and why we became the multicultural society…

— Naomie Harris

What the history of aviation has brought in the 20th century should inspire us to be inventors and explorers ourselves in the new century.

— Bertrand Piccard

If you look at the history of how information flows, there was a time that newspapers were kind of in the place that Google…

— Eli Pariser

“In truth, France. Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal and England had nothing to do with Athens and the history of Rome from its earliest days…

— Peter Frankopan

The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has…

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

“According to Howard, “this dialectic between Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment, between the individual and the tribe, was to pervade, and to a large extent shape,…

— Steven Pinker

If it was Europe that gave us on the coast some idea of our history, it was Europe, I feel, that also introduced us…

— V. S. Naipaul

“For more than a thousand years this idea of the unity of Christendom, of Christendom as a sort of vast Amphictyony, whose members even…

— H.G. Wells

“The history of Europe before the Conquest is sufficient proof that the Europeans did not have to cross the oceans to find the will…

— Silvia Federici

In the preface to his great History of Europe, H. A. L. Fisher wrote: "Men wiser than and more learned than I have discerned…

— D. V. Ager

Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and…

— Ori Gersht

“Matthews' shout of treason in the House was no random outburst of lunacy, but the last act in an astonishing adventure: one that might…

— Mike Jay