20th century Quote by Thom Hartmann

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

— Alex Carey

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

“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

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

— Anonymous

I don't know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a way that…

— Russ Feingold

“One of my seminars is “Leadership in the 20th century: How being a century behind still puts you ahead of all your competition still…

— Jarod Kintz

“the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men can find themselves standing over death…

— Timothy Snyder

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

“it was the wars of the twentieth century that wiped away the past to create the illusion that capitalism had been structurally transformed.”

— Thomas Piketty