I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy. — Garry Kasparov 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
Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the separation between church and… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
“The Saxon/Norman origin of liberal democracy in the English-speaking world is the key to understanding why the discoveries of sociobiology have appeared… — Mitchell Heisman Copy Share Image
I do believe there is absolutely space for legitimate debate in a liberal democracy about immigration selection, screening and integration. — Jason Kenney Copy Share Image
'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs. — Victor Ponta Copy Share Image
I definitely think America should seek to lead and shape the world and make it safe for liberal democracy. I just don't… — Ro Khanna 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
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
The rise of populism has steadily coalesced movements of millions of people around its divisive us-against-them rhetoric, motivating so many more people… — Jo Swinson Copy Share Image
When countries with the worst possible human rights records sit on the UNHRC, seek to deflect attention from their own egregious human… — Todd Young Copy Share Image
There will instead be a number of fake opposition figures, one of whom is now probably going to be Kseniya Sobchak, which… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
Russian scorn for liberal democracy has a long history, and a certain kind of Russian disdain for the West is nothing new.… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
To those who cynically say today that liberal democracy would be 'obsolete,' I reply: liberal democracy, human rights, freedom of the press… — Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer 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
“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
I believe the liberal international order is under assault from Russia, and from other authoritarian regimes, and it is being questioned from… — Daniel Fried Copy Share Image
“The Stillborn God is not a fairy tale. It is a book about the fragility of our world, the world created by… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
The great ideas of the West - rationalism, self-criticism, the disinterested search for truth, the separation of church and state, the rule… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
“But it is not necessarily the case that liberal democracy is the political system best suited to resolving social conflicts per se.… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
“Despite the support of all these kings and generals, militarily the Warsaw Pact had a huge numerical superiority over NATO. In order… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
“Here is one final reason to think that the United States may be a state that uses the language of democracy to… — Jason F. Stanley Copy Share Image
“Can the West regain its optimism? If the answer is no – and most of the portents are skewing the wrong way… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
“It’s no surprise that many later analysts, in judging these and other actions and statements by Diem in the course of 1955,… — Fredrik Logevall Copy Share Image
Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle of ideas. — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
Christians - at least Christians in a liberal democracy - have accepted, after Thomas Hobbes, that they must obey the secular rule… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
Fascism is a system of political authority and social order intended to reinforce the unity, energy, and purity of communities in which… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Not everything is so bad... Whichever way you look at it, we feel that we can face the future when the liberal,… — Kersti Kaljulaid Copy Share Image
Of all the principles which constitute Liberal Democracy, internationalism is the clearest, the most distinctive, and the one with the longest history. — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
How do we preserve our civil rights, our traditions as a liberal democracy, in a time when government power is expanding and… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as 'liberal… — Donald Tusk Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the right to difference; being plurality, it postulates the dispersion of the absolute, its resolution into a dust of truths,… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
Trump wants to be an autocrat, he does want to be a Vladimir Putin-style ruler. His chief strategic advisor, Steve Bannon, is… — Malcolm Wrightson Nance Copy Share Image
“Behind this monstrous shield, liberal democracy and the free market managed to hold out in their last bastions, and Westerners could enjoy… — Yuval Noah Harari 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 practice of discarding weak children? This “absurdity” is simply the price of freedom—freedom is not free, as they put it in the film [300]. Freedom is not…” quote by Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5f6/slavoj-i-ek-1738_children_but-what-about-the-apparent-absurdity-of_806718.jpg)
