Belief Quote by Moses Finley

In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power…

— Robert Caro

Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves

— Robert A. Dahl

Democracy appears to me potentially a higher form of political organization than any kind of dictatorship. But if it turns out that in America,…

— Benjamin Spock

Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.

— David Pryce-Jones

The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their…

— Walter E. Williams

I'm still waiting for the revolution against globalization in the rest of the world. The corruption that's eating away our systems; the false belief…

— Peter Sunde

“A hundred years hence, our belief in democracy and human rights might look equally incomprehensible to our descendants. Dreamtime”

— Yuval Noah Harari

A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.

— Bertrand Russell

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life…

— Catherine Ashton

“And so, when the chips are down, I must say, though not without a sense of repugnance, that if you wish to show your…

— Dag Solstad

We have two distinct types of political organization to take into account; and clearly, too, when their origins are considered, it is impossible to…

— Albert J. Nock

Our political organization, based as it is on an eighteenth-century separation of powers and on a nineteenth-century nationalist state, is generally recognized to be…

— Carroll Quigley