Twentieth century Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“The prediction that in the twenty-first century humankind is likely to aim for immortality, bliss and divinity may anger, alienate or frighten any number…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The essential characteristic of the first half of the twentieth century is the growing weakness, and almost the disappearance, of the idea of value.

— Simone Weil

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“I mean, this was the second half of the twentieth century, for pity’s sake, and they still saw communism as the road to utopia.”

— Masaji Ishikawa

It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all…

— Margaret Beckett

“In the twentieth century we have almost doubled life expectancy from forty to seventy, so in the twenty-first century we should at least be…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“What did priests, rabbis and muftis discover in the twentieth century that can be mentioned in the same breath as antibiotics, computers or feminism?…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In the twentieth-century medicine benefited the masses because the twentieth century was the age of the masses. Twentieth-century armies needed millions of healthy soldiers,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Bureaucracy will be the deity of the twentieth century.”

— Péter Esterházy

For many people in the west, Afghanistan is synonymous with the Soviet war and the Taliban. I wanted to remind people that Afghans had…

— Khaled Hosseini

The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to…

— Harold Innis

It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all…

— Martin Amis