"The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly."

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Source : "Margaret Atwood Interview". Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. December 2, 2010.

Margaret Atwood

#Democracy Quotes #Citizens Quotes #Fabric Quotes

“You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”

Source : Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”
“Thereâ€™s no such thing as free kittens.”
“I'm too old to know everything”
“Relationship Principle 10 You can tell how much someone respects you by how much he respects your opinion. If he doesn't respect your opinion, he won't respect you.”
“Give heed to the cause of the holy Roman Church, mother of all churches and teacher of the faith, whom you by the order of God, have consecrated by your blood. Against the Roman Church, you warned, lying teachers are rising, introducing ruinous sects, and drawing upon themselves speedy doom. Their tongues are fire, a restless evil, full of deadly poison. They have bitter zeal, contention in their hearts, and boast and lie against the truth.”

Source : "Exsurge Domine". Papal bull by Pope Leo X, 1520.
“It's just economics 101: When it's free to pollute, you get more pollution. But when there's a price to pay, industry will have an incentive to find low-cost carbon solutions.”
“No amount of telling is worth doing it once.”
“Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”

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