Air Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev

There is no democracy without socialism, and no socialism without democracy.

— Rosa Luxemburg

Democracy is the road to socialism.

— Karl Marx

Socialism, as I understand it, is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.

— Wen Jiabao

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

— Vladimir Lenin

Socialism without democracy is unthinkable.

— Karl Kautsky

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has…

— James Russell Lowell

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

— Ernest Mandel

All that socialism means to me, to be very frank with you, is democracy with a small 'd.' I believe in democracy, and by…

— Bernie Sanders

Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

— B. R. Ambedkar

Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead. And, unlike communism,…

— Johnny Carson

I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic . . . (democracy) should be…

— Herbert Croly