Lawrence Lessig Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public issues. It is easy to be wrong and misguided in your head. It is harder when the product of your mind can be criticized by others. Of course, it is a rare human who admits that he has been persuaded that he is wrong. But it is even rarer for a human to ignore when he has been proven wrong. The writing of ideas, arguments, and criticism improves democracy.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

• I am big supporter of the idea of a global anti-corruption movement - but one that begins by recognizing that the architecture of corruption is different in different countries. The corruption we suffer is not the same as the corruption that debilitates Africa. But it is both corruption, and both need to be eliminated if the faith in democracy is not going to be destroyed.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Country, Ideas, Suffering

• 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

  Mean, People, Support

• 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

  Work Out, Choices, Democracy

• The principle, that should be a fundamental principle in our democracy, the principle of "one person, one vote," says that the vote of every American should count equally. And if it does, Hillary Clinton should be the president of the United States.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Democracy, President, Principles

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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