Quotes of: Democratic-society Keyword

The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering from want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.

The Quotable Thoreau

If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are...

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Charity is today a 'political charity.'. . . it means the transformation of a society structured to benefit a few who appropriate to themselves the value of the work of others. This transformation ought to be directed toward a radical change in the f...

A Theology of Liberation

There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks, and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society, we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our s...

Nicholas A. Christakis

My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of country you want to live in. If you want a you're on your own, winner take all society you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibil...

William J. Clinton

Only two things matter in the reproductive health debate: the medical opinions of doctors, and the will of women. Also, feminism is intricately connected with all aspects of our society, including health, but also labor and the economy. A woman can't...

Allison Kilkenny Jamie Kilstein

Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, e...

Alexis de Tocqueville

I know that societies often have killed people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having brought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help destroy the racist cancer that is malignant in the body of America...

Life

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

H. Rap Brown

We live in a celebrity-obsessed society.

Kelly Reilly

At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.

Daniel Ek

The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.

Harold Ford, Jr.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

Harry S Truman

To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.

John Drinkwater

Republicans regard Dean as one of their best secret weapons, I have yet to find a Democrat who, in private chatter, doesn't think he's a problem for them.

Rich Galen

The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.

Rush Limbaugh

It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.

Paul Begala

I think too many Democrats are too wimpy. But I think they're beginning to toughen up.

Paul Begala

A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard.

Peter Camejo

Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.

Patrick Murray

We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it...

P.J. O'Rourke