Eduard Bernstein

"The parties which assumed the names of liberals were, or became in due course, simple guardians of capitalism."

"The fact of the modern national States or empires not having originated organically does not prevent their being organs of that great entity which we call civilised humanity, and which is much too ext…"

"We may think as we like theoretically, about man’s freedom of action, we must practically start from it as the foundation of the moral law, for only under this condition is social morality possible."

"The aim of all socialist measures, even of those which appear outwardly as coercive measures, is the development and the securing of a free personality. Their more exact examination always shows that …"

"If democracy is not to excel centralised absolutism in the breeding of bureaucracies, it must be built up on an elaborately organised self-government with a corresponding economic, personal responsibi…"

"Democracy is in principle the suppression of class government, though it is not yet the actual suppression of classes."

"Democracy is the high school of compromise."