Blow Quote by Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

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

The crisis of Western values has many aspects, many faces. There is a decline in faith in liberal democracy, a loss of confidence in…

— Anne Applebaum

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy…

— Jacques Chirac

In the West, people pride themselves on being the defenders of democratic rights and the champions of freedom. But if the Western world really…

— Nirmala Srivastava

You can have a broad popular democracy movement and have it end being taken over by the most vicious people and the result is…

— Donald Rumsfeld

The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a…

— Oriana Fallaci

The world today has a strong democratic core shaped by American ingenuity, sacrifice, and spirit. But on the periphery are many unstable and dangerous…

— Senator John Kerry

“To a Western observer, schooled in the theory and practice of Western freedom, it is precisely the lack of freedom—freedom of the mind from…

— Bernard Lewis

But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history.…

— Ronald Reagan

When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced, it feeds…

— Barack Obama

I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical…

— Gijs de Vries

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

— Dan Quayle