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If you make people uniform, you can control them. If you teach people to read, and think, and question things, you lose control. So,…

— Jacque Fresco

I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a…

— Milton Friedman

“If there is no way to compel those who find a majority decision distasteful to go along with it, then the last thing one…

— David Graeber

You need people who are shaping and advocating for the actual policies and structural changes that need to occur in order to address those…

— Maya Harris

In a democratic society, nothing will ever receive unanimous support. The way to deal with this is to empower elected governments and ensure that…

— Erin O'Toole

Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find…

— Donald Rumsfeld

I am hostile to the idea that collective solutions have to be made by committees and then imposed top-down. I very much prefer bottom-up…

— Roger Scruton

There exist better models of decisionmaking, for the governance of states, corporations and other large organizations, for example in Germany. We need to study…

— Thomas Pogge

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

— Christopher Hitchens

We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people…

— Walter Lippmann

The case to be made is that we have got to get people involved - continue to get people involved in the political process…

— Bernie Sanders

What we must eliminate are systems of representation that carry with them the authority which has become repressive because it doesn't permit or make…

— Edward Said