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121 " The murky world of terrorism is more relevant than ever today: terrorist organizations, whether Bolshevik at the beginning of the twentieth century or Jihadi at the start of the twenty-first, have much in common. "
― Simon Sebag Montefiore , Young Stalin
122 " During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as humanism gained increasing social credibility and political power, it sprouted two very different offshoots: socialist humanism, which encompassed a plethora of socialist and communist movements, and evolutionary humanism, whose most famous advocates were the Nazis. Both offshoots agreed with liberalism that human experience is the ultimate source of meaning and authority. "
123 " So each generation set out to find more of its kind, and within just a few cycles of birth and death, the Club had spread not only through space, but also time, propagating itself forwards into the twentieth century and back into the Middle Ages, the death of each member spreading the word of what it was to the very extremes of the times in which they lived. "
― Claire North , The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
124 " The working people of the Flint area hated this rag, but it was our only daily so you read it. Everyone called it the " Flint Urinal." Editorially, the paper had historically been on the wrong side of every major social and political issue of the twentieth century -- " the wrong side" meaning: whatever side the union workers were on, the Urinal took the opposite position. "
125 " As the final computerized decade of the twentieth century came into view, time itself seemed to speed up and compress into smaller and smaller bytes, leaving less and less time over the breakfast table to ruminate on the fascinating aboriginal lore from the Australian outback or on the clandestine Israeli airlift of Ethiopian Jews out of southern Sudan. Readers preferred news that affected their own lives and they wanted it now. Leisure time was a luxury that fewer and fewer times subscribers enjoyed. "
― Dennis McDougal , Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty
126 " The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century. "
127 " The twentieth century belongs to Canada. "
128 " I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse. "
129 " Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams. "
130 " The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before. "
131 " The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed. "
132 " When Oscar Niemeyer died on December 5, 2012, ten days before his 105th birthday, he was universally regarded as the very last of the twentieth century's major architectural masters, an astonishing survivor whose most famous accomplishment, Brasilia, was the climactic episode of utopian High Modern urbanism. "
133 " The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. "
134 " The storm and stress period of women and the new social and psychological formations thereby entailed must indeed extend far into the twentieth century. This period of conflict will cease only when woman within and out of marriage shall have received legal equality with man. "
