"We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both."

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David Korten

#Democracy Quotes #Humans Quotes #Prosperous Quotes

“Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
“Indeed, as long as a country has a culture a religion an ideology where Islam is dominant it will never be a democracy.”

Source : Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl
“There is a sensuousness to language, there's a pace to it. There's a deliciousness to it. I do have pleasure when I'm writing. I mean, I'm aware of pleasure. And sometimes I make myself laugh, with a joke or something; or I feel gleeful. But that's just momentary. And then it's about how to make it work. Your medium has to be alive to you, no matter what you do.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.”
“The 9/11 Commission strongly recommends that the National Intelligence Director be fully in control of the budget, from developing it to implementing it, to ensuring that the National Intelligence Director has the clout to make decisions.”
“I think the one worthy cause I can identify myself with is valuing education. Because I believe education is something that cannot be taken away from you. You can have money, you can have fame, but in the end, it can be taken from you. But education will always be there to help you.”

Source : FaceBook post by Shamcey Supsup from Apr 11, 2011
“It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are notnecessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.”
“Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for”

Source : Peggy Fleming, Peter Kaminsky (2000). “The Long Program: Skating Toward Life's Victories”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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