Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Bullock

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

Alan Blinder

Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

Al Smith

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

David McCullough

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

David Korten

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.

David Korten

Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.

C. Wright Mills

Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!

Carl Icahn

Im a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.

Ai Weiwei

Democracy, material wealth, and universal education are the soil upon which modernism exists.

B. Carroll Reece

We approach closer and closer to socialism.

Adolf Hitler

Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same.

Daniel De Leon

Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.

Aneurin Bevan

There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

E. O. Wilson

Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species

Benjamin Tucker

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

Ludwig von Mises

Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

Ludwig von Mises

The system that would stand midway between capitalism and socialism.

George Bernard Shaw

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.