#democracy

The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#data #democracy #design #designed #effect

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#closets #democracy #dislike #down #electric

Democracy is indispensable to socialism. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#indispensable #socialism

If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them. ↗

— Carl Levin

#chance #democracy #denying #ignoring #iraq

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#expresses #i #idea #master #slave

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#electoral #electoral process #faith #must #our

If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and liberties in China. ↗

— Gary Locke

#chinese #create #democracy #expose #freedoms

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#every #every man #form #gives #government

And in a democracy, when we say we're mad at what's going on, what we need to be saying is we're mad at ourselves. ↗

— Mike Lowry

#going #mad #need #ourselves #say

Despite elections and the experience of post-Soviet personal freedoms by the Russian people, the fate of democracy in Russia is perhaps more ambiguous now than at any time since the collapse of the Communist system. ↗

— Richard Lugar

#any #collapse #communist #democracy #despite