Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few. — William Eldridge Odom Copy Share Image
I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality. — George Washington Copy Share Image
The only right we do not and should not have in a liberal democracy is a right not to be offended. — Flemming Rose Copy Share Image
I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy. — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In a functioning liberal democracy, we cannot normalize political violence. — Andy Ngo Copy Share Image
Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society. — Gustav Heinemann 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
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
In a liberal democracy rapid, radical and fundamental economic change must benefit the many not the few, if it is to gain… — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Those who believe that liberal democracy and the free market can be defended by the force of law and regulation alone, without… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
If every inhabitant of a liberal democracy believes in liberal democracy, then it doesn't matter what creed or colour they are. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
If Ukraine becomes a pro-American liberal democracy, and a member of NATO, and a member of the E.U., the Russians will consider… — John Mearsheimer 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
For me, it is clear that we are currently in a period of structural crisis of capitalism going back to the 1970s,… — John Bellamy Foster Copy Share Image
“On 11 September 2001 the Twin Towers were hit. Twelve years earlier, on 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. That date… — Slavoj Žižek 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
“the dull old facts of altered climate, vanishing forests, creatures and polar ice. Profitable and poisonous agriculture obliterating biological beauty. Oceans turning… — Ian McEwan 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
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
“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
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
“In order to reach parity in conventional armament, Western countries would probably have had to scrap liberal democracy and the free market,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The television commercial has mounted the most serious assault on capitalist ideology since the publication of Das Kapital. To understand why, we… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“In the past, the states best able to manage events beyond their borders have been those best able to avoid the temptation… — Robert Scales Copy Share Image
“We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Another threat, less overt but no less basic, confronts liberal democracy. More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the… — Zbigniew Brzezinski 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
“We need a laissez faire that will hold fast to the ends of autonomy and freedom of choice; one that will begin… — Robert A. Nisbet 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