The Past Is Malleable And Flexible, Changing

There Are Times In History When The Dark Drums Of God Can Barely Be Heard Amid The Noises Of This World. Then It Is Only In Moments Of Silence, Which Are Rare And Brief, That Their Beat Can Be Faintly Discerned. There Are Other Times. These Are The Times When God Is Heard In Rolling Thunder, When The Earth Trembles And The Treetops Bend Under The Force Of [god’s] Voice. It Is Not Given To Men [and Women] To Make God Speak. It Is Only Given To Them To Live And To Think In Such A Way That, If God’s Thunder Should Come, They Will Not Have Stopped Their Ears.

If You Are Good For Nothing Else, You Can Still Serve As A Bad Example.

If A Socialist Economy Is Opened Up To Increasing Degrees Of Market Forces, A Point Will Be Reached At Which Democratic Governance Becomes A Possibility.

India Is The Most Religious Country In The World, Sweden Is The Most Secular Country In The World, And America Is A Country Of Indians Ruled By Swedes.

If You Say Simply That Pressures Toward Democracy Are Created By The Market, I Would Say Yes