Democracy Quote by Peter L. Berger

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

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

It is not true at all that a free market will ensure a democracy. It doesn't. There must be a balance between a free…

— Mahathir Mohamad

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

“As with democratic politics, the market is a mass of individuals making discrete choices within a framework shaped by larger forces, over which they…

— Charles J. Chaput

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

— Benjamin Barber

If markets are leading us in directions that we, as a democratic society, decide are not compatible with our vision of liberty or democracy,…

— Lina Khan

We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.

— Thomas Piketty

“[A]s long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their…

— Noam Chomsky

The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.

— Ludwig von Mises

Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.

— Ha-Joon Chang

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