20th century Quote by Todd Gitlin

If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs, our achievements and even…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

“Revolution and terror are synonymous; only with the passage of time does any revolution become respectable.”

— T.R. Fehrenbach

“Every previous revolutionary movement in human history has made the same basic mistake. They’ve all seen power as a static apparatus, as a structure.…

— Richard K. Morgan

“The arbitrariness of the revolutionaries is terrible not because they're villains, but because it's a mechanism out of control, like a machine that's gone…

— Boris Pasternak

I think we're in a very distinctively different historical moment. I mean, I think that you had two things that were operating in the…

— Henry Giroux

The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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

— Timothy Snyder

If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the…

— George Ripley

Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new…

— Immanuel Kant

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

“...revolutionary nationalism was by far the most successful radical tide of the the twentieth century.”

— Terry Eagleton