Democracy Quote by Lina Khan

Markets are a social construction, they're made from institutions. We in a democratic society create markets, we constitute markets, we bring them into existence,…

— Douglas Massey

Democracy and markets are both fundamental building blocks for a decent society. But they clash at a fundamental level. We need to balance them.

— Ha-Joon Chang

Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.

— Benjamin Barber

We know that the only alternative to private competition is government monopoly of enterprise. We know that when government monopolizes production, distribution, and employment,…

— Benjamin Franklin Fairless

The democracy of the market consists in the fact that people themselves make their choices and that no dictator has the power to force…

— Ludwig von Mises

The alternative to the market process is government control, and we know where that principle leads.

— Sheldon Richman

As a society we can't live without moral considerations. We do have to protect the public good. And markets are not designed to do…

— George Soros

Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty. We're working on a third generation which has little…

— Walter E. Williams

People do not choose a government that will bring the market within their control; instead, the market in every way conditions governments to bring…

— Zygmunt Bauman

If you begin acting contrary to the public's interest, and there is no alternative governmental model, with which you're willing to engage, we, the…

— Edward Snowden

The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we…

— Angela Merkel

I have spent my entire career advocating for free-market economic policies, trying to convince the leaders of this country that unnecessary government interference in…

— Stephen Moore