“Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.” ChallengesDemocracyPolicyThriveQuestioningInquiryPolicy Making Author:Nicholas Stern
“Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a partial perversion of his instincts and insights. He pays for his social ease with what used to be called his soul - his discriminations, his uniqueness, his psychic energy, his self.” SoulSelfUsedIndividualEnergySocialPayDemocracyMediaMoralityCostMassInstinctInsightDiscriminationUsed To BeEaseThriveUniquenessPsychicsPerversionMass Media Book:The Savage God: A Study of Suicide Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
“Oftentimes Westerners don't really understand fully the values of this particular culture. And I think the jury is still out as to whether democracy can really thrive in Iraq.” ThinkingStillsValuesCultureDemocracyParticularIraqThriveJuryWesterners Author:Katie Couric
“Democracy can thrive only when it enlists the devotion of those whom Lincoln called the common people. Democracy can hold that devotion only when it adequately respects their dignity by so ordering society as to assure to the masses of men and women reasonable security and hope for themselves and for their children.” PeopleMenChildrenCommonDemocracySecurityMassMen And WomenDignityDevotionReasonableThrive Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt