Conditions Quote by Mortimer Adler

You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.

— Noam Chomsky

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

— Hugo Chavez

Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

— Imran Khan

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

Money power cannot be separated from democratic power without miscarriage and ensuing frustration - political and economic. Democracy implies the sovereignty of man; and,…

— E.C. Riegel

Democracy can thrive only when it enlists the devotion of those whom Lincoln called the common people. Democracy can hold that devotion only when…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“There can be no real political democracy unless there is something approaching an economic democracy,” he wrote. “There can be neither political nor industrial…

— Ganesh Sitaraman

Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding…

— Albert Einstein

So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you…

— Peter L. Berger

Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the…

— Louis D. Brandeis

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without…

— Peter L. Berger