#racy

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#kinds #literacy #marry #things #you

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy. ↗

— David Korten

#capitalism #democracy #enemy #market #presented

The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy. ↗

— David Korten

#brussels #citizens #decision #democracy #eu

Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#divides #into #makes #people #provision

You don't spread democracy through the barrel of a gun. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#democracy #gun #spread #through #you

And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#back #basic #basic things #certain #democracy

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#democracy #exist #form #fortunes #great

Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#brought #decent #decent man #democracy #die

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#apparently #candidates #cost #democracy #elections

The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#democracy #incompatible #islam #legitimate #majority