Quotes about democratic

While a democratic process is morally desirable for arriving at a decision, it doesn’t necessarily produce the best outcomes.

when the democrats choose not to be democratic, democracy fails to be democratic.

As a Republic governed through the utilization of a democratic process, elections are necessary in order to give every United States citizen a voice in the governing of this great nation.

The biggest mistake of a democratic country is to underestimate the power of a democratically elected pro-fascist leader because it is always easier to destroy a castle from within!

In a democratic country everything is very simple: If you choose a good government, good things will happen; if you choose a bad government, bad things will happen!

Good riddance to the blatantly corrupt Democratic Party!

I regard the USA mass population routinely flip-flopping between the Republican and Democratic parties as a form of insanity.

You see my point? The average person has a very average notion of goodness to which they aspire averagely. To aspire to goodness in any remarkable way would be ‘undemocratic’.

I have always thought that in revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played a very considerable political part. One thing is certain, and that is that a condition of semi-madness is not unbecoming at such times, and often even leads to success.

The Holocaust also shows us how a combination of events and attitudes can erode a society's democratic values.

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved.

We want Israel as a democratic and Jewish state. So you have to maintain a Jewish majority, and you want to do that by legal means, by democratic means.

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.

What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.

I have repeatedly called for respecting institutions and the democratic process. Once the process is completed, we should always respect the outcome.

When Bill Clinton ran in '92, and I listened to him, and I had of course known of his record from Arkansas, I found him extraordinarily inspirational, and I voted Democratic.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.

Some clever and honourable nations change their regime from authoritarian to a democratic one, and some weak-kneed dictator lover miserable nations do the exact opposite! Don’t try to look for a character in a person who gave up his freedom, because he does have none!

When a plutocracy is disguised as a democracy, the system is beyond corrupt.

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a tool of government. Case in point, Stalinist USSR was a "democracy".

Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness.

It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path - up or down - meaning it isn't always a fruitless path. One is forgotten, but the other is glorified. To be what they call 'middle-of-the-road' in most cases just means you have a hard time figuring out who between options is dumber. So quite often those who refused to decide were, after all, the bold individuals, the influential ones, the creative ones, those who snatched their own authority.

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials.

If the Nazis are Socialists simply because they call themselves Socialists, then North Korea really is a Democratic Republic.

Our democracy should aspire to be more democratic.

The Democratic Party of the USA would greatly appreciate your cooperation with re-installing Mr & Mrs Pinocchio into the White House.

Democratic Socialism is simply Totalitarianism that allows you the illusion of a voice in the matter.

Censorship is alive and well in America.

Voting on things is democratic, yes - but not on deciding on whether or not people should be equal or have human rights. That isn't democracy, it is mob rule.Everybody should be equal in a democracy - that is the nature of a democracy.

Democracy doesn't mean spreading terror.

In an era of globalization, we recognize that we are part of a global society, but we have no idea how to make such a society work. So far, no unified vision or leadership has emerged to guide us in this endeavor. We have not yet found a way to expand the spiritual ideals of democracy so that they pertain to every human being, every animal, and every plant. Until we do, human civilization and the Earth's ecosystem will continue to be in peril.