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
“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
Though editorialists at The New York Times and The Washington Post still don't get it, most Democrats in Congress finally do: Today's… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Liberal Democracy is all about extending choice. Give people the option to decide their retirement age, and you immediately extend their freedom… — Charles Kennedy 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
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
People who come out of the liberal arts don't have an understanding of science and technology, and the people in science and… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
Why should the idea of Western liberal democracy automatically imply unregulated free-market capitalism? — John Lanchester 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
The crisis of Western values has many aspects, many faces. There is a decline in faith in liberal democracy, a loss of… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
No one can know how long this dumbing-down of American religion will persist. But so long as it does, citizens should probably… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
In the 19th century it was basically nationality and people trying to define their nationalism and create states which would reflect their… — Samuel P. Huntington 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
“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
“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
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
I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality. — George Washington Copy Share Image
