Democracy Quote by Anne Applebaum

The West is pathetically naive about Russian reformers. We long to believe they are real liberals, but no liberal will ever rule Russia.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical and selfish,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not…

— Fareed Zakaria

The Russian people have unilaterally made their choice in direction of democracy in the early '90s. They will not be led astray. Nobody should…

— Vladimir Putin

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

— Garry Kasparov

Russia may soon get another chance to move closer to the West, to make a step - I do believe the first step toward…

— Vladimir Voinovich

The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the…

— Adolf Hitler

The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

— Garry Kasparov

I am half-surprised to find that as I go on I get more and more confirmed in the old advanced Liberal principles, economic, social,…

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

“As demonstrated in Russia and numerous other countries, when faced with a choice between democracy without capitalism or capitalism without democracy, Western elites unhesitatingly…

— Michael Parenti

To those who cynically say today that liberal democracy would be 'obsolete,' I reply: liberal democracy, human rights, freedom of the press and the…

— Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

“The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind of capitalism,…

— Amadeo Bordiga