Democratic Quotes

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Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

No country is free unless it is democratic.

We must face the appalling fact that we have been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties.

We expected anyway that the democratic forces which have agreed with us in Zimbabwe would have rallied behind us. But it was a difficult struggle.

I say from time to time that the vote is precious. It's almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it.

Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.

National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

Further more Yemen is leading pioneer in democratic practice, lots of brothers and friends testified on that.

The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the ear down.

This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.

The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.

There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

The voter is basically dumb and lazy. The reason I became a Democratic operative instead of a Republican was because there were more Democrats that didn’t have a clue than there were Republicans.

We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people.

If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.

South Africa now needs skilled and educated people to say 'How do we manage and develop this democratic country?'

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect

Campaign promises are - by long democratic tradition - the least binding form of human commitment.

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.

The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election

The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democratic ideals and values.

Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

I'm just the democratic voice of Bolivia.

Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly.

The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

If we really love and cherish Taiwan, we should hold our hands in unity to protect our country and our democratic values with the most humble and tolerant hearts.

The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights

The Socialist Party will no longer be running a candidate for president. The Democratic Party is leading this country to Socialism much faster than we could ever hope to.

It is not enough to profess faith in the democratic process; we must do something about it.

Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.

I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.

I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more or less important.

We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.

Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.

I think we have very steady records of President Putin, who inherited the country with democratic values.

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis.

No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor.

100 political parties put together can never defeat the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, come 2015 presidential election.

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.