Timothy Garton Ash Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• Well, that's the way democracy works. We have to build this Europe with the material we have at our disposal. And this material is national democracy.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Europe, Democracy, Way

• What is the elephant in all our rooms? It is the global triumph of capitalism. Democracy is fiercely disputed. Freedom is under threat even in old-established democracies such as Britain. Western supremacy is on the skids. But everyone does capitalism. Americans and Europeans do it. Indians do it. Russian oligarchs and Saudi princes do it. Even Chinese communists do it... Karl Marx would be turning in his grave. Or perhaps not, since some of his writings eerily foreshadowed our era of globalised capitalism. His prescription failed but his description was prescient.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Writing, Elephants, Chinese

  "Global capitalism now has no serious rivals. But it could destroy itself" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2007.

• As one looks back, one sees that the fall of the Berlin Wall opened the door to three developments - the Eurozone, which was crafted around German unification, the free movement of peoples within Europe, particularly people from the new democracies of Eastern Europe, and, more broadly, it opened the door to globalization.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Wall, Fall, Doors

  "Tracing The 43-Year History Of The U.K. In The European Union". "All Things Considered" with Ray Suarez, www.npr.org. June 25, 2016.

• 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 states stretching from Portugal in the West to Estonia in the East, all of them more-or-less liberal democracies - they wouldn't have believed you.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  War, Democracy, East

  "Tracing The 43-Year History Of The U.K. In The European Union". "All Things Considered" with Ray Suarez, www.npr.org. June 25, 2016.

• A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Democracy, Middle East, Administration

  "A little democracy is a dangerous thing - so let's have more of it". www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2006.

• In a democracy it is ultimately for us, the citizens, to judge where to place the balance between security and privacy, safety and liberty. It's our lives and liberties that are threatened, not only by terrorism but also by massive depredations of our privacy in the name of counter-terrorism. If those companies from which governments actually take most of our intimate details want to show that they are still on the side of the angels, they had better join this struggle for transparency too.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Struggle, Angel, Names

  "If Big Brother came back, he'd be a public-private partnership". www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2013.

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