Quotes About Direct Democracy

#1. Direct democracy is lazy anarchy, for people who don't want to be governed but are too lazy to govern themselves. They want participation served to them.

Heather Marsh

#2. 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.

Lawrence Lessig

#3. Corbyn was not elected by the parliamentary party but by people who have the luxury of sounding off without the responsibility of answering for it. Corbyn represents the idiocy of direct democracy, and the culture of resentment that takes advantage of it.

Roger Scruton

#4. Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.

Dick Gephardt

#5. 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?

Lawrence Lessig

#6. The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth ...

Petra Kelly

#7. 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

Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

#8. And when they do spin out of control there are important ramifications that affect America, not just its direct national interest but its broader interests as a nation which has thought of itself as a beacon to other nations, of freedom, liberty, democracy, whatever.

John Pomfret

#9. These various remedies, eugenic, educational, ethical, populist and socialist, all assume that either the voters are inherently competent to direct the course of affairs or that they are making progress towards such an ideal. I think [democracy] is a false ideal.

Walter Lippmann

#10. Under a system in which no single question is submitted to the electorate for direct decision, an ardent minority for or against a particular measure may often count for more than an apathetic majority.

Patrick, Baron Devlin

#11. Social Democracy preached against capitalism for half a century. After the November revolution the Reds had the opportunity to direct capitalism into the proper paths: but nothing happened!

Julius Streicher

#12. A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government.

John Jay Hooker

#13. There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time.

Angel Haze

#14. Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.

Howard Zinn

#15. Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

Theodore Parker

#16. We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.

Klaus Topfer

#17. What in the fuck is happening? he said to the darkening house. The first time in his life he'd ever uttered a swear; he'd earned the word, he felt. The house did not answer him.

Lauren Groff

#18. No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

Walter Lippmann

#19. The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.

Noam Chomsky

#20. To be a film director is not a democracy, it's really a tyranny. You're the head of the project, for better rather than worse. I write the film and I direct the film, I decide who's going to be in it, I decide on the editing, I put in the music from my own record collection.

Woody Allen

#21. Commercial books don't even get covered. The reason why so many book reviews go out of business is because they cover a lot of stuff that nobody cares about. Imagine if the movie pages covered none of the big movies and all they covered were movies that you couldn't even find in the theater?

James Patterson

#22. All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

Thomas Carlyle

#23. The price of love is only love, ... one must love if one desires to be loved.

Honore D'Urfe

#24. When someone at the State Department proclaims Facebook to be the most organic tool for promoting democracy the world has ever seen - that's a direct quote - it may help in the short run by getting more people onto Facebook by making it more popular with dissidents.

Evgeny Morozov

#25. Everyone knew that democracy-direct rule by all the people-required such spartan, sel denying virtue on the part of all the people that it was likely to survive only where poverty made upright behavior necessary for the perpetuation of the race.

Bernard Bailyn

#26. It still stung, knowing that he would rather see me with someone else than give me my moment, but I had to be mature about it. It wasn't about me.

Mina V. Esguerra

#27. The man would stop suffering, when he become capable of dissolving the I.

Samael Aun Weor

#28. A lot of people don't know the brain is 85% water, so anything that dehydrates you like caffeine or alcohol is bad for the brain.

Daniel Amen

#29. May it please your Majesty I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but as the House is pleased to direct me whose servant I am here.

William Lenthall