20th century Quote by Timothy Snyder

“Is our democracy in danger? It is a question we never thought we’d be asking. We have been colleagues for fifteen years, thinking, writing,…

— Steven Levitsky

In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.

— Klemens von Metternich

“A nationalist will say that “it can’t happen here,” which is the first step toward disaster. A patriot says that it could happen here,…

— Timothy Snyder

“Since the turn of the millennium, and particularly over the last decade, no fewer than twenty-five democracies have failed around the world, three of…

— Edward Luce

“We live in a time that demands a discourse of both critique and possibility, one that recognizes that without an informed citizenry, collective struggle,…

— Henry A. Giroux

We're approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible political invention, totalitarianism. Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is…

— Ronald Reagan

I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.

— Edwin Land

I believe democracy can survive. But it's certainly true that the euphoria of the 1990s - an era when democracy was spreading and more…

— Anne Applebaum

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse…

— Erwin W. Lutzer

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

“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

“But a democracy can only obtain truth as the result of experience, and many nations may forfeit their existence whilst they are awaiting the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville