Democratic Quotes - Page 2

The marketplace is democratic.

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

President Kennedy is very democratic and very penetrating.

Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream.

Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.

Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

There exists no more democratic institution than the market

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

In a democratic society, the only treason is silence.

In any democratic country you have more than one view.

So Israel won't be a democratic state, so what.

We should stand by our allies, but we should also stand by our ideals and work with our allies and encourage them to live up to the democratic institutions and traditions that they enjoy.

I've written a book entitled 'Islam: the Challenges of Democracy,' because it is a challenge. It requires careful interpretation of the Islamic tradition and Islamic theology, and there's a lot in there that would support democratic ideals.

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

As a democratic Socialist profoundly committed to the rule of law, I could not condone, let alone encourage, defiance of the law.

No theory of government was ever given a fairer test or a more prolonged experiment in a democratic country than democratic socialism received in Britain. Yet it was a miserable failure in every respect... To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukemia with leeches.

Democratic Party is a party that's just out of touch with who the electorate is and who Americans are.

The democratic ideal has always been related to a moderate level of inequality. I think one big reason why electoral democracy flourished in 19th century America better than 19th century Europe is because you had more equal distribution of wealth in America.

You can't teach a monkey to speak and you can't teach an Arab to be democratic.

how can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society?

The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal.

Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.

I did a lot of reading. I read about democratic socialism. And I read about the efforts of people for such a long time trying to create a society in which all people can live with dignity. And that's kind of what I believe.