The only right we do not and should not have in a liberal democracy is a right not to be offended. — Flemming Rose Copy Share Image
I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality. — George Washington 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
Liberal democracy is in regression all over the world, and it's a dangerous thing. — Steve Schmidt Copy Share Image
Free speech is the foundation of an open and liberal democracy from college campuses to the White House. — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
Why should the idea of Western liberal democracy automatically imply unregulated free-market capitalism? — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society. — Gustav Heinemann Copy Share Image
We're a little bit low in the 1970s, right, post-Vietnam, Watergate era, malaise, all that, but this is more like the 1930s… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
I did not dwell on the issue of Europe during either the 2001 or the 2005 campaigns - despite it being a… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
In a liberal democracy rapid, radical and fundamental economic change must benefit the many not the few, if it is to gain… — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
If Ukraine becomes a pro-American liberal democracy, and a member of NATO, and a member of the E.U., the Russians will consider… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
An informed public democracy means rule of the people. A media system is absolutely essential to that process, if people are going… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
The notion that you can duff up a country for three months, pacify it for a bit longer and then miraculously transform… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
Ultimately, it's not our responsibility to turn Afghanistan into a 21st-century, vibrant, economic, liberal democracy with a little L. Our responsibility is… — Martha McSally Copy Share Image
While we must remain determined to defeat terrorism, it isn't only terrorism we are fighting. It's the beliefs that motivate terrorists. A… — Senator John Kerry Copy Share Image
“We allowed ourselves to accept the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in only one direction: toward liberal democracy...We… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Liberal democracy has endured because its institutions are designed for handling morally hazardous forms of coercive power. It puts the question of… — Michael Ignatieff 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
We see threats to liberal democracy coming from lots of directions. We have to create something new, a common response, because in… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“It just means that for liberal democracy to develop in the Muslim Middle East, it will take much more than merely removing… — John R. Bradley Copy Share Image
“the dull old facts of altered climate, vanishing forests, creatures and polar ice. Profitable and poisonous agriculture obliterating biological beauty. Oceans turning… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“On 11 September 2001 the Twin Towers were hit. Twelve years earlier, on 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. That date… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“The struggle of the Union and Confederate economies to supply and support their armies thus became a reflection of the prewar antagonism… — Allen C. Guelzo Copy Share Image
For me, it is clear that we are currently in a period of structural crisis of capitalism going back to the 1970s,… — John Bellamy Foster Copy Share Image
“To expose the roots of liberal democracy in ethinic conflict is an act of destruction that is necessary to lay the foundations… — Mitchell Heisman Copy Share Image
The most widely discussed formulation of [the One World model] was the "end of history" thesis advanced by Francis Fukuyama. "We may… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
“Theories of agonism emphasize the affective aspects of political relations and accept that disagreement and confrontation are forever ongoing. For political theorist… — Carl DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“The media and intelligentsia were partly complicit in Trump's depiction of the world as a dystopia headed for even greater disaster. 'Charge… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Another threat, less overt but no less basic, confronts liberal democracy. More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“We need a laissez faire that will hold fast to the ends of autonomy and freedom of choice; one that will begin… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
“We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“In the past, the states best able to manage events beyond their borders have been those best able to avoid the temptation… — Robert Scales Copy Share Image
“In order to reach parity in conventional armament, Western countries would probably have had to scrap liberal democracy and the free market,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The television commercial has mounted the most serious assault on capitalist ideology since the publication of Das Kapital. To understand why, we… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“But what about the apparent absurdity of the idea of dignity, freedom, and reason, sustained by extreme military discipline, including of the… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
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