Democratic society Quote by Rocky Carroll

Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption,…

— Richard Ebeling

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is…

— Michael Novak

Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all societies eventually will.

— Anne Applebaum

I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.

— P. J. O'Rourke

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

— Eldridge Cleaver

A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and a totalitarian…

— Michael Polanyi

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism,…

— Peter L. Berger

Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the…

— Milton Friedman

There is absolutely nothing democratic about the "global arrangement" through which the West has been ruling over the rest of the world for decades…

— Andre Vltchek

The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate pace with…

— Thomas Paine

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

— Jim DeMint

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

— Adlai E. Stevenson