George Soros Quotes about Democracy

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Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.

George Soros

Government, Democracy, Investing

"Philanthropist Under Fire". BuzzFlash Interview, www.alternet.org. March 1, 2004.

Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.

George Soros

Democracies Have, People, Democracy

Source: www.pbs.org

If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.

George Soros

Law, Democracy, Principles

George Soros (2007). “Open Society Reforming Global Capitalism Reconsidered”, p.12, PublicAffairs

We can speak of the triumph of capitalism in the world, but we cannot yet speak about the triumph of democracy. There is a serious mismatch between the political and the economic conditions that prevail in the world today.

George Soros

Political, Democracy, Triumph

George Soros (2007). “Open Society Reforming Global Capitalism Reconsidered”, p.11, PublicAffairs