Fascism is a system of political authority and social…

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of…

— Michael Ignatieff

“And the extraordinary thing is that according to these texts all powers, all the power and glory of the kingdoms, all that has to…

— Jacques Ellul

When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other…

— Robert A. Heinlein

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many,…

— Van Wyck Brooks

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. Unrestrained political…

— James F. Cooper

“Freedom is the right to difference; being plurality, it postulates the dispersion of the absolute, its resolution into a dust of truths, equally justified…

— Emil Cioran

All of the dirty tricks, basically, the Russians employ to tear down liberal democracy, we need to work together on a bipartisan basis, and…

— Adam Schiff

Not everything is so bad... Whichever way you look at it, we feel that we can face the future when the liberal, democracy-based world…

— Kersti Kaljulaid

We're a little bit low in the 1970s, right, post-Vietnam, Watergate era, malaise, all that, but this is more like the 1930s where the…

— Daniel Fried

What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore…

— Andrew Sullivan

To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the separation between church and state because…

— Stanley Hauerwas

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

— Garry Kasparov

In a functioning liberal democracy, we cannot normalize political violence.

— Andy Ngo

“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

For me, it is clear that we are currently in a period of structural crisis of capitalism going back to the 1970s, but deepening…

— John Bellamy Foster