Democratic Quotes

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No emergency was ever dealt with effectively by democratic process. — Ian Mcewan
The Republican and Democratic parties both feed out of the same bag provided by the monied system, and where the list frequently differs the same… — George Seldes
It is one of the saddest spectacles of our time to see a great democratic movement support a policy which must lead to the destruction… — Friedrich August von Hayek
This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the… — Wendell Berry
We still (sometimes) remember that we cannot be free if our minds and voices are controlled by someone else. But we have neglected to understand… — Wendell Berry
The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary.… — Howard Zinn
For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the… — Frederick Douglass
Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms from opposition parties… — Amartya Sen
There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery. — Gilles Deleuze
Standing in a two-hour line makes people worry that they're not living in a democratic nation. People stand in line for two houres and they… — David Sedaris
Nature is typified by strength; humanity by weakness. Nature adheres to an immutable order; humanity to an ever-increasing chaos. Nature recognizes no equality at any… — Boyd Rice
Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone or humiliate or unnecessarily hurt or dominate or reject another human being, they become forces… — Abraham Maslow
If there is one fact we really can prove, from the history that we really do know, it is that despotism can be a development,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It didn’t matter the quality of the writing— Callie’s fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic. — Sarah MacLean
Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have… — Margaret Thatcher
Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations.… — Theodore Roosevelt
I’m “exceptional”- a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of “gifted” and “deprived” (which used to mean “bright” and “retarded”) and as soon… — Daniel Keyes
The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague sense, its moving… — Howard Zinn
Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population,… — Mark Levin
And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic. He found intricate and painful ways of spreading that unhappiness as far as possible. — Terry Pratchett
I'll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years. [Touting his underlying intentions for the "Great Society" programs, LBJ confided with two like-minded… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition, are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral… — Margaret Thatcher
A good design is not a democratic consensus. — Edward de Bono
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. — Mary McCarthy

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