Norberto Bobbio Quotes on Politics
Norberto Bobbio was an Italian legal and political philosopher and one of the principal voices of postwar Italian liberal democracy. This page collects quotes attributed to Norberto Bobbio on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Norberto Bobbio:
“Democracy is government by discussion under conditions of equality.”
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Attributed to Norberto Bobbio:
“The rights of the citizen are the brakes upon the power of the state.”
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Attributed to Norberto Bobbio:
“Right and left remain meaningful so long as inequality remains.”
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Attributed to Norberto Bobbio:
“Tolerance is the respect that liberty owes to its own conditions.”
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Attributed to Norberto Bobbio:
“A theory of democracy is also a theory of its imperfections.”