20th century Quote by Stephane Hessel

“Revolutions as often take place because the old regime simply collapse out of economic inefficiency and bureaucratic rigidity rather than for the reasons given…

— Bernard Crick

Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.

— Terry Eagleton

“For virtually all the socialist revolutions of the twentieth century, it was not a crisis of the capitalist system, but imperialist war that pushed…

— S.A. Smith

It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially…

— Vilfredo Pareto

Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual…

— Francesco Guicciardini

The greatest historical events in the twentieth century - in fact, in all of human history - have been the overthrow of capitalism and…

— Grover Furr

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

— Norman Mailer

“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

All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through to the…

— John Lennon

There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social…

— Arthur Erickson

To me, the biggest revolution of the 20th century was the pill.

— Sonia Rykiel

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

— H. Rap Brown