“The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.” ProcessCenturyBuildingEurope21st Century20th Century Author:Jean-Pierre Raffarin
“The end of World War I also marked the end of bourgeois culture. An inner emptiness developed that, in the 19th and 20th centuries, paved the way for two ideologies that dragged Europe and the world into an abyss and plunged it into a catastrophe.” WorldWayTwoWarEndsCultureCenturyEuropeIdeologyWar Of The WorldsEmptinessWorld War ICatastrophe20th CenturyAbyssBourgeois Author:Walter Kasper
“The 20th Century was a bloodbath, and for all the frustrations and failures of the project to unify Europe, the last five decades have been periods of unprecedented peace, growth, and prosperity in Europe.” Has BeensLastsGrowthFiveCenturyPeriodsProjectsEuropeProsperityDecadesFrustration20th CenturyUnprecedented Author:Barack Obama
“Think of Europe in the 20th century. Two World Wars generated by nationalism. France, Germany, Britain fighting with each other.” ThinkingWorldTwoWarFightingCenturyEuropeFranceWar Of The WorldsGermanyBritainNationalism20th CenturyTwo Worlds Author:Daniel Fried
“The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.” IfsWarBigsTodayPoliticalMemoriesCenturyColdEuropeThreatIdeologyCold War20th CenturyFundamentalist1930sGoing To WarPolitical Ideology Book:Tony Blair in His Own Words Source: Tony Blair in His Own Words
“It is for Muslim scholars to study the whole history of Islamic science completely and not only the chapters and periods which influenced Western science. It is also for Muslim scholars to present the tradition of Islamic science from the point of view of Islam itself and not from the point of view of the scientism, rationalism and positivism which have dominated the history of science in the West since the establishment of the discipline in the early part of the 20th century in Europe and America.” WholeAmericaViewsStudyCenturyDisciplinePeriodsEuropeTraditionWestIslamWesternPoint Of ViewIslamicEstablishmentScholarChapters20th CenturyScientismRationalismHistory Of SciencePositivismEurope And America Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr