The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in…

The [Vietnam] war's gone on for three years. And we'd thought we'd ended it because we'd done exactly what we were told and what…

— Bill Ayers

“We are ready to accept almost any explanation of the present crisis of our civilization except one: that the present state of the world…

— Friedrich A. von Hayek

“Increasingly economic historians can draw analogies between the development of the present crisis and the period between the two world wars, as well as…

— André Gunder Frank

Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often complain about their…

— Ivan Krastev

In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.

— Al Gore

In the present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem

— Ronald Reagan

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of…

— Noam Chomsky

What's happened recently in Pakistan, India and Kuwait only goes to show that it's futile to imitate Western democracy. They've ended up exactly where…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.

— John Lanchester

There's one other interesting thing about Western democracy. It didn't arrive at the end point that Karl Marx thought it would that wealth would…

— John Shelby Spong

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy…

— John le Carre

The rise of the far-right, which is driven by predominantly anti-Muslim hatred, if we continue to allow this rising tide of the far-right to…

— Humza Yousaf

“Commentary would come to life in 1945 amid widespread predictions that mass unemployment would resume as soon as war production ebbed. But it wouldn’t…

— Benjamin Balint

“But no one who has not wrestled with Communism as a philosophy, and Communists as political opponents, can really understand the values of Western…

— Richard Crossman

We began to temper Western democracy with what I'd call a social contract. We put in Social Security, graduated income tax, workers' compensation. We…

— John Shelby Spong