Crisis Quote by Yanis Varoufakis

The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

— Anne Applebaum

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

Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term. Because history is long term. But today, we don't…

— Marjane Satrapi

History isn't something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and…

— Marsha P. Johnson

“We allowed ourselves to accept the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in only one direction: toward liberal democracy...We imbibed the…

— Timothy Snyder

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

When I was in college in the late 80s-early 90s, there was a sense that history was on a straight path toward democracy everywhere.…

— Zephyr Teachout

History is not the linear sort of movement toward better and better things.

— Ben H. Winters

“History, as it was purveyed to us, was not so much a narrative, not even the detached observation of the rise and fall of…

— Patricia Hampl

History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that they’re processes – that for tens of thousands of years, people have been…

— John Green

All revolutions in history have obstacles.

— Nawal El Saadawi