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Updated: June 28, 2025
Commercial greed, there is no other name for it, leads a firm to adopt some such idiotic motto as "the customer is always right." No organization could ever live up to such a policy, and the principle back of it is undemocratic, un-American, unsound and untrue. America does not want a serving class with a "king-can-do-no-wrong" attitude toward the public.
The real doctrine is something which we do not, with all our modern humanitarianism, very clearly understand, much less very closely practise. There is nothing, for instance, particularly undemocratic about kicking your butler downstairs. It may be wrong, but it is not unfraternal.
In the first place, it has been authoritative rather than scientific, which is to say that students have been induced to accept the statements of teachers and text books, and have not been trained to weigh for themselves their reasonableness and worth; a principle essentially unscientific and undemocratic, since it inculcates in the future citizen convictions rather than encourages the habit of open-mindedness so necessary for democratic citizenship.
Custom, and the caste I know no other word just the bull-headed, asinine, undemocratic caste that custom has built up." "And yet there must be discipline," Katie murmured: it seemed dreadful Wayne should be tearing down their house in that rude fashion, house in which they had dwelt so long, and so comfortably. "Discipline is one thing. Bullying's another.
Hughes, and as a consequence of the most undemocratic control of foreign relations which our Constitution attempted to fasten upon us. A successful foreign policy requires public understanding and support.
Vane, you don't put yourself on a level with those creatures that dig ditches and climb masts, and such things?" "Your sentiments are very undemocratic, Mr. Clinton. You ought to have been born in England." "I wish I had been. I like their institutions a good deal better than ours, don't you know?" "When I first spoke with you, Mr. Clinton, I thought you might be an Englishman."
This "two-thirds" rule, so undemocratic in its nature, remains the practice of the Democratic party today. The Whigs and Republicans always adhered to the majority rule. The early Democratic conventions also adopted the practice of allowing the majority of the delegates from any State to cast the vote of the entire delegation from that State, a rule which is still adhered to by the Democrats.
The New Age opposes those democratic proposals, the referendum and proportional representation, considers that the representative may so thoroughly embody the ideals and interests of the community as to become "a spiritual sum of them all," and admits that this ideal of a "really representative body of men" might be brought about under an extremely undemocratic franchise.
Everything in our age has, when carefully examined, this fundamentally undemocratic quality. In religion and morals we should admit, in the abstract, that the sins of the educated classes were as great as, or perhaps greater than, the sins of the poor and ignorant.
In a democratic age he has insisted upon the undemocratic virtues of obedience, silence, and reverence. Ehrfurcht, reverence the text of his address to the students of Edinburgh University in 1866 is the last word of his philosophy.
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