Quotes About Democratic

a "negative correlation," as David Apter put it,55 between coercion and information: that is, while relatively democratic regimes tend to be awash in too much information, as everyone bombards political authorities with explanations and demands, the more authoritarian and repressive a regime, the less reason people have to tell it anything—which is why such regimes are forced to rely so heavily on spies, intelligence agencies, and secret police.

It hung heavily albeit secretly over the internal calculation of Democratic leaders of the period. But of course it was never discussed in the major newspapers and magazine articles that analyzed policy making in Vietnam. It was a secret subject, reflecting secret fears.

Rights are either God-given or evolve out of the democratic process. Most rights are based on the ability of people to agree on a social contract, the ability to make and keep agreements.

I've had very good meetings with Unionist leaders, Democratic Unionist Party, Ian Paisley and his team.

The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is sufficient.

The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice.

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

I will be very sad and worried if the imperialist government was calling me a great democratic man.

The Socialist Party will no longer be running a candidate for president. The Democratic Party is leading this country to Socialism much faster than we could ever hope to.

There is only one hope for mankind - and that is democratic Socialism.

Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.

A lot of the things that we've been able to do in the last several years were Democratic ideas, including the structure for this new director of national intelligence.

What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies... Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.

I readily admit (indeed I should lay it down as a fundamental principle) that in a republican government, which has a democratic basis, the rich do require an additional security above what is necessary to them in monarchies. They are subject to envy, and through envy to oppression.

Non pretendo di scoprire l'acqua benedetta calda, ma la religione è una forma di controllo e di oppressione che va bene per le masse. Pertanto, un perfetto Gentiluomo, che è assolutamente democratico e conservatore dove sarebbe inutile non esserlo, sa che le masse si meritano di essere controllate e oppresse: lui no.

In an absolutism, the autocrat is visible and tangible. The real despotism of republican institutions is far deeper, more insidious, because it rests on the popular delusion of self-government and independence. That is the subtle source of democratic tyranny, and, as such, it cannot be reached with a bullet.

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.

The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club.

In fundamental ways, the 2016 Democratic primary has been a litigation of the Obama years, and of whether the president's 2008 campaign vow of 'change we can believe in' succeeded or failed.

I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own.

How are we all going to pitch in to fix this party to make working America know that the Democratic party is absolutely on their side? That's the real question.