Big Quote by Zephyr Teachout

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

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

No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy,

— Ai Weiwei

The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“History is, after all, something that happened to people. No 'force' whether economic or political can act except as it acts through the minds…

— Priscilla Smith Robertson

Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

Remember, until the 1970s, the spread of democracy has always been accompanied by the decline of inequality. The more democratic our societies have been,…

— Ivan Krastev

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