#demo

Then we still have time!” I gasp. “It’s not too late. We know what he’s going to do. We’ll return to the cave and fight.” “We?” Kernel says sarcastically. “Yes! I’ll fight to save Dervish and Bill-E. I don’t care what those monsters throw at us. When it’s family, it’s different.” “You really think you can choose not to be a coward if and when it suits you?” Kernel jeers. Beranabus interrupts wearily before I can retort. “It doesn't matter. You're arguing about nothing. The time for heroics has passed. ↗

— Darren Shan

#family #grubbs-grady #kernel-fleck #family

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#be true #been #capitalism #democratic #economy

Let me say again that the relationship is asymmetrical: there's no democracy without a market economy, but you can have a market economy without democracy. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#democracy #economy #market #market economy #me

So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#democracy #economy #empirical #grounds #i

Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#becomes #capitalistic #chinese #democratic #economy

Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#basis #constructed #cynical #day-to-day #day-to-day basis

So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#been #convention #democratic #getting #had

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#country #democrat #democrats #republican #republicans

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#i #never #said #were

Our country is the most generous, open, tolerant, and democratic in the world. ↗

— Judy Biggert

#democratic #generous #most #open #our