Capitalist Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

Can it be believed that the democracy which overthrew the feudal system and vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists?

— Alexis de Tocqueville

If the strong exploit the weak, democracy will not be stable.

— Condoleezza Rice

Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all societies eventually will.

— Anne Applebaum

The perspective that many today are beginning to see as fully realistic is that democracy in our country, and in our part of the…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

It's said that history inevitably marches toward democracy, but it only leaves the possibility of democracy, and the constant threat that it would be…

— Zephyr Teachout

Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like…

— Elliott Abrams

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

— Edmund Burke

If history's any judge, you might have democratic leanings in a revolution but that doesn't necessarily mean that the revolution is going to end…

— Ilan Berman

If democracy as we know it has to survive the elites have to regain their credibility. And they have to start by admitting that…

— Abhijit Banerjee

When a mob of institutions decides there is only one way forward, democracy loses meaning.

— Anna Paulina Luna

In the feudal times, a successful empire exist not only because of the King's judgement himself. But merely because of the staunch men who…

— Rizzi Vicci

So yes in theory there is a kind of a formal democracy and in many ways these were achievements and an improvement over the…

— Noam Chomsky