Democratic Society Quotes

Democratic Society Quote of the day

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.

It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

We must build a trickle-up media that reflects the true character of this country and its people. A democratic media serving a democratic society.

In a democratic society, the only treason is silence.

The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.

Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that.

The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.

I believe that one of the most important institutions in a democratic society is a free press.

The political form of a society wherein the proletariat is victorious in overthrowing the bourgeoisie will be a democratic republic.

Ensuring the access of all citizens to government information and to essential information for human development is a must for every democratic society.

I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society.

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world.

I grew up in a dictatorship, so I really appreciate democracy. I think democracy isn't just a random thing that's around - a democratic society needs the involvement of everybody.

Each American must remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.

One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.

The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.

Setting aside labels, I am somebody who believes that government in a democratic society should be representing the needs of the vast majority of the people who are middle-class and working families.

Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls.

With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.

Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education.

The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.

Students for a Democratic Society was founded in 1961.

[Students for a Democratic Society] it's a social democratic program.

We are in a democratic society. It's our job to question.

I've always lived in a democratic society.

The tortoise moves very slowly, it moves towards whatever the goal is, to keep a democratic capitalistic society functioning.

I don't see anything immoral, unethical or illegal for a person in a democratic society to be able to spend their own money on the health care of themself or a loved one.

Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic society.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will handle its politics through democratic institutions.

Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.

Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.

In a democratic society freedom of expression and information are protected and government lack of concern in protecting them is a serious issue.