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

Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the spirit of…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I am a democrat [proponent of democracy] because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are democrats for the opposite…

— C.S. Lewis

“It was not, however, to these Fascist groups, numerically unimportant as they were, that the Third Republic owed its collapse. On the contrary, the…

— Hannah Arendt

“A great deal of democratic enthusiasm descends from the ideas of people like Rousseau, who believed in democracy because they thought mankind so wise…

— C. S. Lewis

I'm very proud that we stood for the proposition that no man, woman or child should ever have to live in tyranny. We believed…

— Condoleezza Rice

“In 1951 Dec 20th, Nehru, while campaigning for the first democratic elections in India, took a short break to address a UNESCO symposium in…

— Ramachandra Guha

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

We used to be so proud that our country offered far more economic opportunities than the feudal system in Great Britain, with its royal…

— Robert Reich

We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed…

— Indira Gandhi

Because in the feudal system of that period at least 80% of people lived in villages, so it's very simple to get a cross-section…

— Michael Haneke

As the feudal system retained many of the elements of slavery, modified by the traditions, customs, and practices of the primitive communities, so capitalism…

— Joshua K. Ingalls