The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Liberal democracies do not and often cannot respond in kind to cyberattacks on their own way of governance. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
Our democracies are increasingly captured by a ruling class that seeks to perpetuate its privileges. — Steve Hilton Copy Share Image
Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized. — Romano Prodi Copy Share Image
Israel is one of the greatest and most modern democracies on the planet. — Matteo Salvini Copy Share Image
Our Declaration of Independence declares that democracies derive their power from the 'consent of the governed.' But this democracy will fail if… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
When extremists extract concessions from democracies on points of principle, either by blackmail or terror, democracies do not have long left. — Philippe Val Copy Share Image
The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies,… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
Diplomats bluster and bluff, but democracies don't really have that many tools they can use to push back, effectively, against the seductive… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the best strategy to ensure our security and to build a durable peace is to support the advance of democracy elsewhere.… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
For countries to succeed, for democracies to succeed, the women and men in those countries need to be free. Women and men… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent… — Roberto Unger Copy Share Image
Jews have not only become equal citizens in Western democracies, they have become leading citizens. And, of course, the reestablishment of the… — David Novak Copy Share Image
You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
The principles governing Western democracies, of which Israel rightly considers itself a part, are based on the assurance that everyone has a… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
“on Democracies: "there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to that automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Is our democracy in danger? It is a question we never thought we’d be asking. We have been colleagues for fifteen years,… — Steven Levitsky Copy Share Image
Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
The moral case is, people say, "Oh they're not ready for democracy," but that's something someone who lives in a democracy would… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity,… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
“Shortly afterwards Addis Ababa launched a crackdown on its opponents that resulted in hundreds of deaths. If America’s president was in two… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“The history of ancient Greece showed that, in a democracy, emotion dominates reason to a greater extent than in any other political… — B.H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
New information technologies-including email, the web, and computerized blast-faxes and phone calls-have fundamentally changed the landscape of political competition in modern democracies.… — Thomas Homer-Dixon Copy Share Image
“In modern democracies, one is always too few and two are always too many” — Idiotneil Copy Share Image
Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few. — William Eldridge Odom Copy Share Image
Without Madeleine Albright, our community of democracies might be smaller. — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections. — Thomas E. Mann Copy Share Image
Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is. — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight. — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
