Top 1200 Democratic Values Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

As a civil society, our task is to pressure governments into democratic changes.

The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.

We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.

Moral questions may not have objective answers-whether revealed by God or by science-but they do have rational ones, answers rooted in a rationality that emerges out of social need. That rationality can only be discovered through exercising the human potential for rational dialogue, the potential for thinking about the world, and for discussing, debating and persuading others. Values can never be entirely wrenched apart from facts; but neither can they be collapsed into facts. It is the existence of humans as moral agents that allows us to act as the bridge between facts and values.

If everybody is happy, then something is wrong with the democratic process.

Confronting Republicans can definitely mobilize a disaffected Democratic base.

Everything that you've learned: 'Make a lot of money, have a nice house'. But they never teach you at school how to relate, how to communicate with others, how to share values with others. ...They teach you how to make a living. You become an optometrist, he becomes a physicist, she becomes a structural engineer, he's an architect. In the future, none of that. Everybody is trained to be a generalist, so they understand different cultures, different values, how we get to be the way we are. So no-one can ever use you for war or killing anybody or hurting anybody

We have to have a conversation where we bring in all the stakeholders and say, 'What is the vision of the Democratic Party?'

What I'm saying is we [Democratic Party] need to get much more granular.

It's tremendously undemocratic in a democratic society when you deliberately disenfranchise thousands of people.

The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.

A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.

Left-leaning bloggers have had a tremendous impact on the Democratic Party.

For all the insularity of the old guard, Pittsburgh was always an open and democratic town.

In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.

Women are still congenitally Democratic - and I'm the Republican pollster saying that.

The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final.

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

The equality of rights of all citizens is the basic tenet of modern democratic societies.

I believe in the Democratic party, and their philosophy and what they stand for - for the poor people.

You see we're a country that talks about family values. But we haven't passed anything to help family values since the Family and Medical Leave Act. And the Family and Medical Leave Act was one of the first things I voted on when I came to Congress. It was very thrilling to me, because when my first child was born, I was terrified of being fired. When my second child was born, I was a member of the city council, and in some ways it was easier to respond to 250 constituents than it was to respond to one employer.

I find the Democratic party overall, on a macro level, to be institutionally corrupt.

Some of my best friends are Jewish contributors to the Democratic Party.

But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.

I think that when you start your own business you have to be very clear on what you're passionate about and what your values are. I was very passionate about travel and I wanted to inspire other people. At the same time, I knew if I was going to start my own business, it was going to have to mirror my values, and I knew I was passionate about the environment and about sustainability.

American history is the story of Democratic malefactors and Republican heroes.

I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.

The Democratic Party needs to take a stand against corporate greed.

It's not the job of the U.S. military to do nation-building or produce democratic utopias.

I'll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.

I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.

If we have only one that can govern, and we chose him... does that mean we're not democratic?

The tow pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget.

I had quit the Congress to form the Progressive Democratic Front in 1978.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

The [Democratic] party is a bank. It collects money and gives it to TV stations.

The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world."

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

What the establishment was trying to do was to position me as a Republican running in the Democratic primary.

I will not be responsible for the loss of the Democratic majority in the United States Senate.

It is not enough to profess faith in the democratic process; we must do something about it.

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

Unlimited campaign spending eats at the heart of the democratic process.

The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins.

I'm a Democrat because I represent the true traditions of the Democratic Party.

No longer should we rely on oil from countries that are not necessarily friendly or democratic.

It's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of.

All Moroccans are justifiably proud of the development of democratic institutions in Morocco.

All electoral laws in Europe are more democratic than they are in the United States.

The utilities and facilities of major corporations can be confiscated and given to democratic collectives

People change, mature, and develop their values, attitudes, and preferences as a function of age. It is actually a strategy deployed by many organizations. The idea is that once Millennials grow up -get a mortgage, family- they will start acting like us and sharing our values. Personally, I would not make that bet. Even if it were to happen, Millennials are putting off seven or more years what other generations have done. Waiting for Millennials to "grow up" is risky when it comes to knowledge transfer, talent development, and competitive advantage.

Democratic leaders always seem to blame America first.

We live in a democratic society that allows me to fight the revolution in the corridors of power.

Democratic senators are more scared of their base than they are of the voters.

I... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party.

With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world.

The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries.

We can demonstrate to the world that the U.K. remains a beacon for opportunity, fairness, and democratic leadership.