“Without democracy freedom is a chimera”

“Freedom, democracy, and socialism can only ever exist together; it is impossible to have any one without the other two.”

“Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based.”

“Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote.”

“You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.”

“you call democracy freedom. I call it corporation.”