20th century Quote by Alex Carey

“The 20th century has been characterised by three developments of great political importance. The growth of democracy; the growth of corporate power; and the…

— Thom Hartmann

The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of…

— Noam Chomsky

“The political history of the twentieth century is the story of greater and more direct political participation. And success kept expanding democracy's scope. Whatever…

— Fareed Zakaria

Worldwide, the twentieth century has seen the rise of extraordinary concentrations of economic and political power - evoking the people as the source of…

— Thomas L. Dumm

The 20th Century was a bloodbath, and for all the frustrations and failures of the project to unify Europe, the last five decades have…

— Barack Obama

The prosperity of the second half of the twentieth century was both a cause and an effect of social and scientific breakthroughs that have…

— David Bornstein

“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

The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

The chief business of twentieth-century philosopy is to reckon with twentieth-century history.

— Anonymous

The twentieth century was marked by two broad trends: the regulation of capitalism and the deregulation of democracy. Both experiments overreached.

— Fareed Zakaria

The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked…

— Eric Schlosser

The 20th century was the century of war and blood. The 21st century is the century of dialogue.

— Dalai Lama