Always Quote by Francis Fukuyama

The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the…

— Adolf Hitler

If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would not come,…

— Howard Zinn

Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.

— Jill Lepore

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

— Anne Applebaum

Capitalism, in my estimation, is not about democracy. I think we're beginning to see an understanding of this. We see it in the Black…

— Henry Giroux

Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished…

— Wei Jingsheng

I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.

— Tariq Ali

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

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has…

— James Russell Lowell

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

— Hillary Clinton

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

— H. L. Mencken

History provides many examples of democracy crushed by people who said to be the champion of "genuine democracy" and "the people's real meaning". The…

— Olof Palme