Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, transition and/or democracy:
“The History of the world is not the theatre of happiness. Periods of happiness are blank pages in it, for they are periods of harmonyperiods when the antithesis is in abeyance.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (17701831)
“Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.”
—Mao Zedong (18931976)
“The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Mans capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but mans inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”
—Reinhold Niebuhr (18921971)
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