Democracy Quote by Carl DiSalvo

“The paradox of democracy is that its stability is born of its openness to upheaval through elections, legislation, and social action. Disruption is built…

— Condoleezza Rice

It's the good old paradox of democracy. We are individually pretty small drops in the bucket, but collectively we are all powerful.

— Damian Kulash

“Political theorist Langdon Winner argues that human artifacts embody politics—the things we build can implicitly regulate who does and does not belong.20 The fantasy…

— Nick Yee

“John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), English philosopher, political theorist, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an…

— John Stuart Mill

Nietzsche should not be taken seriously as a political theorist, at least not at the level of his positive prescriptions. But the Nietzsche who…

— Mark Fisher

“Freedom is the right to difference; being plurality, it postulates the dispersion of the absolute, its resolution into a dust of truths, equally justified…

— Emil Cioran

All of the dirty tricks, basically, the Russians employ to tear down liberal democracy, we need to work together on a bipartisan basis, and…

— Adam Schiff

Not everything is so bad... Whichever way you look at it, we feel that we can face the future when the liberal, democracy-based world…

— Kersti Kaljulaid

We're a little bit low in the 1970s, right, post-Vietnam, Watergate era, malaise, all that, but this is more like the 1930s where the…

— Daniel Fried

What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore…

— Andrew Sullivan

To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the separation between church and state because…

— Stanley Hauerwas

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

— Garry Kasparov

In a functioning liberal democracy, we cannot normalize political violence.

— Andy Ngo

“We allowed ourselves to accept the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in only one direction: toward liberal democracy...We imbibed the…

— Timothy Snyder

For me, it is clear that we are currently in a period of structural crisis of capitalism going back to the 1970s, but deepening…

— John Bellamy Foster