“Remember, until the 1970s, the spread of democracy has always been acc...” — Ivan Krastev Quote

Remember, until the 1970s, the spread of democracy has always been accompanied by the decline of inequality. The more democratic our societies have been, the more equal they have been becoming. Now we have the reverse tendency. The spread of democracy now is very much accompanied by the increase in inequality.

Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground.

Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises.

For the European Union, Russia is as important politically and economically as China is to the U.S.

Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.

I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.

My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them.