“Read any of the top-selling business books, all of them talk about moving away from a top down manner of leading to a more inclusive one. It's not happening over night, but if you read the winds of change in most of the democracies in the world we are moving toward shared levels of power.” IfsWorldBookMovingNightLevelsDemocracyWindHappeningsSellingMoving AwayTop DownWinds Of Change Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book touched me by its feeling of freedom and open spaces, the way the poet spoke of the ocean by describing a drop of water in his hand. Walt Whitman was offering the world an open hand (now we call it democracy) and my 'Monument for Walt Whitman' became this open hand with mirrors, so you can see inside yourself.” WorldWayFirstsBookFeelingsHandsYoungFoundWaterSpaceDemocracyPoetOceanFirst TimeMirrorsGrassTouchedSpokesOfferingTranslationsMonumentDescribingDutchWaltLeaves Of GrassDrop Of WaterOpen Spaces Author:Karel Appel
“They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact that maybe people read more books a hundred years ago - that's not true. I think the same percentage has always read.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingYearsBookFactsHandsArtistCultureDemocracyTvsHundredYears AgoPressesCorporateLiteracyPercentagesPrintingCorporate CulturePrinting PressMoaningGutenberg Author:Sherman Alexie
“My definition of secularism is very clear. The sole religion of the Government is Nation First, the holy book is the Constitution.” FirstsBookGovernmentNationsDemocracyClearHolyIndiaConstitutionElectionDefinitionsSoleSecularismHoly Books Author:Narendra Modi
“In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's.” BookMatterRaceDemocracyTeamColorBaseballShiningBagsCreedsUniformsInspirational Team Book:Tuned to Baseball Source: Tuned to Baseball
“With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him.” MenBookLawPoliticalChanceCasesDemocracyCrimeHe ManFindingsFairsFilledCommittedDiscoveringOffensePinsViolationProsecutorInvestigatorsLaw Books Author:Robert H. Jackson
“I've written a book entitled 'Islam: the Challenges of Democracy,' because it is a challenge. It requires careful interpretation of the Islamic tradition and Islamic theology, and there's a lot in there that would support democratic ideals.” BookChallengesSupportDemocracyWrittenIdealsTraditionDemocraticIslamCarefulTheologyIslamicInterpretationEntitledDemocratic Ideals Author:Khaled Abou El Fadl
“He [Mencken] was an autodidact, with all the misplaced confidence and all the astonishing gaps that characterize that breed. Not many of us would venture to write a book about democracy without ever having read de Tocqueville, nor embark on a translation of Nietzsche with only a sketchy knowledge of German.” WritingBookDemocracyGapsVentureTranslationsAstonishingMisplacedSketchy Author:John Derbyshire
“I do believe that the collapse of the traditional media is catastrophic for our democracy, but I wasn't about to mythologize it. I understand its structural flaws, and the lies it tells, which are primarily, but not always, the lies of omission, and I wasn't going to leave that out. Knopf offered to publish the book but they said that an editor was going to "take out all the negativity," which, of course, I wasn't going to accept. I had been paid half my advance, and I had Nation Books buy the manuscript for that half.” BelieveSaidBookLyingCoursesNationsHalfAcceptingDemocracyMediaPaidTraditionalFlawsEditorsCollapseNegativityThey SaidPublishManuscriptsOmission Author:Chris Hedges
“It's the same with this idea of a literate public, and also of a democracy in which people have access to and really read the best books. It turns out that even when you create this kind of environment, maybe only 10 percent of the people want to read those books.” PeopleWantKindBookIdeasTurnsDemocracyEnvironmentPercentAccess Author:Robert Hass