Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave..

The story in America was a vibrant, bottoms-up democracy subverted by corporations and financial speculators. Those people now control much of the na….

In America, the system itself of democracy is being threatened..

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything..

Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to a….

Without democracy freedom is a chimera.

Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people..

As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely vi….

The democracy which shows up in the United States and in England is not an ideal democracy, because the will of the people is under the pressure of p….

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription..

If someone is calling for democracy, he is calling for an end of a dictatorship and if this is the will of the people, this could also mean overthrow….

We don't want peace over freedom. We will choose freedom over peace. We will go on with our fight for self-determination and democracy. But if things….

The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from k….

...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than half a cen….

Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don’t exist simply because I am outnumbered..

You cannot have democratic accountability in anything bigger than a nation state..

It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement..

Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer..

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians..

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation..

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy..