Age Quote by Saul Bellow

The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an…

— Jean Baudrillard

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

— C. L. R. James

The problem with the old ideology was that it suppressed the individual by starting with society. But it is from a sense of individual…

— Tony Blair

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

— Hu Shih

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

— George Crumb

“The present era is so proud that it has produced a phenomenon which I imagine to be unprecedented: the present's resentment of the past,…

— Javier Marias

There are certain moments in the history of a nation when the choices made define the decades to come.

— George Papandreou

“struggle in place of the old ones. Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinctive feature: it has simplified the class…

— Friedrich Engels

The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances…

— Douglas Coupland

“It must be recognized that an ideology is always out of phase with the situation in which it is employed, for an ideology has…

— Morse Peckham

History is a relay of revolutions.

— Saul Alinsky

Profound political shifts - events that suddenly split families and friends, cut across social classes, and dramatically rearrange alliances - do not happen every…

— Anne Applebaum