America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it…

In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation…

— Roberto Unger

The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would…

— Natan Sharansky

In a world of democracies, the most deserving basis of national differences is that the different states of the world should represent a form…

— Roberto Unger

...Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial technology... Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain the world's democracies, not the world…

— K. Eric Drexler

The problem is that the things demanded by an empire, which is staying power, ruthlessness, the ability and the willingness to use its power…

— Mark Danner

Putin doesn't conduct elections in the Western sense of elections. This is more accurately probably described as a plebiscite, where people are supposed to…

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Israel is one of the greatest and most modern democracies on the planet.

— Matteo Salvini

It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Developing and newer democracies are much more susceptible to the tactics of populists and demagogues - they often do not have strong institutions, free…

— Kofi Annan

Our Declaration of Independence declares that democracies derive their power from the 'consent of the governed.' But this democracy will fail if only some…

— Jonathan Capehart

All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon…

— George Lucas

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots.…

— Demosthenes

The idea that democracies could be vulnerable to demagogues is not a new notion.

— Bill Kristol

In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian…

— Jim Costa

“the democracies that arose after the First World War (and the Second) often collapsed when a single party seized power in some combination of…

— Timothy Snyder