“Much of Sartre’s time in the 1960s was spent travelling in China and the Third World, a term invented by the geographer… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
If the ongoing struggles waged by young people are to matter, demonstrations and protests must give way to more sustainable organizations that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
America is not a democracy. I think if your kids understood that - and most people don't. We are a representative republic.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I don't support direct democracy because I want a life, and that means I want to select people who work for me… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
“Listening to the Gospel on Palm Sunday, it struck me that many people criticise Pontius Pilate for his role in the affair… — auberon waugh Copy Share Image
The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't… — Moby Copy Share Image
My links with [Mahatma] Gandhi now are very political links because I do not believe there is any other politics available to… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
You can't always say what's popular and you ought to go with it. I think that's why the founders were concerned about… — Jeff Flake Copy Share Image
My political tradition is on the left, but I think that more modern leftists, they sometimes get stuck with this vision of… — Ilya Ponomarev Copy Share Image
“The political beauty of our online age is that it’s now actually feasible—and urgently necessary—to reengage the public in just this way.… — Jeffrey D. Sachs Copy Share Image
Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy. — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
“The more routine that systematised activities are, the more nearly they are of the monotonous character seen in the habits of social… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
The presidential campaign was oriented toward the way we elect the presidency, Electoral College, not the popular vote. The popular vote doesn't… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image