Citing Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Most apparent conspiracies result from consistent local self-interest with no need for global coordination.

— Patri Friedman

Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly,…

— E. B. White

Russia and China deride western democracy and deploy both hard and soft power to promote their alternative models of political development.

— David Lidington

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

— Walter Lippmann

Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.

— Natan Sharansky

I had the great honour and privilege of being the first Muslim leader of any western democracy, and yet it is increasingly difficult to…

— Humza Yousaf

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

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

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