“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.” IfsPersonsGovernmentFoundPoliticsFreedomLibertyDemocracyShareEqualEqualityDemocracies HaveBeing EqualEquality For AllLiberty And EqualitySocial EqualityLiberty And Justice For AllCinco De MayoDirect DemocracyEnglish Government Book:Politics Source: Politics
“I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me who do that sort of work for me.” PeopleWantMeanSupportDemocracyDirectSelectDirect Democracy Author:Lawrence Lessig
“I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We have lives. There is reddit. Who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov't must make all the time?” BodyChoicesAnswersDemocracyPolicyCitizensThousandDirectBusyWork OutFavorsRepresentativesSelectedRight AnswersRedditDirect Democracy Author:Lawrence Lessig
“Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities of direct democracy are therefore becoming more topical” PeopleLawDemocracyStudyBecomingConceptsDirectRootsBetrayRepresentativesBecoming MoreOligarchyElectorateDirect Democracy Author:Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
“My links with [Mahatma] Gandhi now are very political links because I do not believe there is any other politics available to us in the late twentieth century, a period of a totalitarianism linked with the market. There is really no other way you can do politics and create freedom for people without the kinds of instruments he revived. Civil disobedience is a way to create permanent democracy, perennial democracy, a direct democracy.” PeopleWayBelieveKindPoliticalCan DoDemocracyCenturyPeriodsLateDirectInstrumentsAvailablePermanentLinksLinkedTwentieth CenturyTotalitarianismDisobedienceCivil DisobedienceDirect Democracy Author:Vandana Shiva
“I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct democracy.” WantMeanStatesUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyCollegeDirectElectoral CollegeDirect Democracy Author:Moby
“America is not a democracy. I think if your kids understood that - and most people don't. We are a representative republic. We're not a direct democracy.” PeopleIfsThinkingKidsAmericaDemocracyUnderstoodDirectRepublicRepresentativesDirect Democracy Author:Rush Limbaugh