Democracies Quote by Romano Prodi

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

— Kofi Annan

Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.

— Lord Acton

“When economic imbalances became extreme, the lack of equilibrium and viability could threaten social and political order.”

— Joshua A. Berman

The opposing tendencies of concentration and spread are of little consequence in the liberal model of political economy.

— Robert Gilpin

As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the…

— Adam Smith

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

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

— Benjamin Barber

But democracy needs structure to work, in the form of laws and policies.

— Katty Kay

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

— Katharine Graham

The experience of a century and a half has demonstrated that our system of free government functions best when the maximum degree of information…

— Brien McMahon

“We believe that we have checks and balances, but have rarely faced a situation like the present: when the less popular of the two…

— Timothy Snyder

Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.

— Samantha Power