The major political event of the twentieth century is the…

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

— Norman Tebbit

At the heart of every major political upheaval lies a fiscal revolution.

— Thomas Piketty

Homeland or death! Socialism or death! We shall overcome!

— Fidel Castro

When you read about the end of the Soviet Union, it's always about the "death of socialism." They never say "the death of democracy."…

— Noam Chomsky

One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the twentieth century.

— Jack the Ripper

For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that. Then it…

— James Gleick

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.

— John Rothenstein

The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one…

— Anzia Yezierska

Twentieth century history of Christianity will name Oral Roberts as the voice that brought the Pentecostal movement to be taken seriously by mainline Christianity.

— Robert H. Schuller

Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse set of…

— Rick Perlstein

It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will…

— Freeman Dyson

Once Europe's colonial empires were sent into deep decline, thanks to World War II, America became globalization's primary replicating force, integrating Asia into its…

— Thomas P.M. Barnett

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…

— S. Jay Olshansky

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

— Péter Esterházy