Democratic Quotes

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.

Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United States.

One of the emphases of the new democratic order is no impunity.

Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny.

There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.

Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

The BJP is an optimistic party. Our strength and our democratic values are such that even a poor person from a backward section - like me - has been nominated as a Prime Ministerial candidate.

To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.

There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy.

It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

Wall Street has enormous power over the Republican Party, enormous power over the Democratic Party.

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

Art is not democratic. It is not for the people.

Not only does the democratic state of mind stem from the inspiration of the Gospel, but it cannot exist without it.

Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence.

We had the opposition of virtually the entire Democratic leadership in every state in this country.

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.

If pigs could fly, yes, of course I would vote for the Democratic Party, but pigs don't fly.

Information is a basic human right and the fundamental foundation for the formation of democratic institutions.

What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn’t ‘democratic’—it’s something that God has written into the very fabric of nature.

We love your adherence to democratic principles and to democratic processes.

Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

There is no other art with as great a democratic capacity as photography.

The politics around trade has always been tough, particularly in the Democratic party, because people have memories of outsourcing and job loss.

Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I’ll predict that right now.

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

Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

One of the notable aspects of the democratic process is that one need not know anything about a subject in order to pass laws about it.

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.

Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.

And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible.

Nakedness makes us democratic, adornment makes us individuals.

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

The Democratic Party has succeeded so well that many of its members are now Republicans.

The marketplace is democratic.

Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

I dream of a free, democratic, peaceful Tunisia, a country that can protect its developing identity.

The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir.

Masturbation is a democratic pleasure, practiced by rich and poor, young and old, married and single.