Capitalism Quote by Vladimir Lenin

If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

People can go to the extreme like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution. For instance, in China, when people take everything into their…

— Donald Tsang

Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated.

— Eskinder Nega

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

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.

— Robert Morrison MacIver

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

— Herbert Croly

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

— Elizabeth Drew

Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means infallible or…

— Anonymous

Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive…

— Wei Jingsheng

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