20th century Quote by Winston Churchill

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

— Elizabeth Kostova

“Today our concern must be with the future. For the world is changing. The old era is ending. The old ways will not do.”

— John F. Kennedy

“Is this the steal of the century or the con of the decade?”

— Frank Sonnenberg

“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

“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.”

— Herman Bavinck

“Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...”

— Anonymous

“For centuries man lived in the belief that truth was slim and elusive and that once he found it the troubles of mankind would…

— Ernest Becker

“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

“Cherish the differences as well as the similarities, for it is the similarities which bind us and the differences which drive us forward.”

— Kassandra L. Heglund

“I wanted to believe that as generations turned over, those coming into economic and political power would build a different, better, more expansive world,…

— Anna Wiener

“Those who got the twentieth century right, whether in anticipation [..] or as contemporary observations, had to be able to imagine a world for…

— Tony Judt

“In my opinion,' he said, 'the nineteenth century is passing for everyone except us.”

— Gabriel García Márquez