America is perhaps best viewed as an 'authoritarian democracy' within its own territory and as 'a global state' of a new kind when considered interna….

We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined….

If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that you could have a European Union of 28 member ….

An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy..

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society..

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary..

Under theocracies and other authoritarian regimes, the rulers are the moral authorities. Under genuine democracy some basic values are entrenched in ….

Today's business model is bad for people, bad for the economy and bad for stability and democracy..

Cumulatively, American society is sliding toward a new form of 'authoritarian democracy'. Elections continue, free speech is generally protected, ins….

We were on the way to democracy. We didn't say that we are fully democratic, we were on the way, we were moving forward. Slowly or fast, that's subje….

Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is..

The [Vietnam] war's gone on for three years. And we'd thought we'd ended it because we'd done exactly what we were told and what we told ourselves we….

Democracy works when people claim it as their own.

The essence of what exists in the U.S. is not democracy but capitalism - imperialism. What the U.S. spreads around the world is not democracy, but im….

How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?.

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too..

I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy..

Calm and order can be just as dangerous to democracy as uneasiness and disorder..

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent..

Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions..

Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few..