Democratic Quotes

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.

George F. Kennan

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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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.

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

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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

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!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Good riddance to the blatantly corrupt Democratic Party!

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

Whether voting Republican or Democrat, the result is the same: A corrupt corporate government.

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

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!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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.

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.

Christina Engela

The Democratic Party would like to be re-elected so that they can continue to uphold almost no Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) whistle-blower complaints, enforce hardly any police internal affairs allegations, and corrupt corporations with lobbyists can continue operating outside of the law.

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

Denying the popular vote is un-American and anti-democratic.

DaShanne Stokes

Our democracy should aspire to be more democratic.

DaShanne Stokes

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

Atom Tate

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.

We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Censorship is alive and well in America.

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

Our freedoms are vanishing. If you do not get active to take a stand now against all that is wrong while we still can, then maybe one of your children may elect to do so in the future, when it will be far more riskier — and much, much harder.

Democracy doesn't mean spreading terror.

DaShanne Stokes

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.

In a democracy government is the God.

A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.