Age Quote by John le Carre

I don't know if I am confident about my art, but I certainly am committed to it.

— Victor Banerjee

“We know that freedom has a price. Democracy has a price. But maybe we paid a price that is higher than freedom and higher…

— Wendy Pearlman

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of…

— Noam Chomsky

I have always insisted on the need for local self-government for Russia, but I never opposed this model to Western democracy. On the contrary,…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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