Electronic Direct Democracy

Famous quotes containing the words electronic, direct and/or democracy:

    “The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.”
    —Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)

    “O wretched fool,
    That lov’st to make thine honesty a vice!
    O monstrous world! Take note, take note, O world,
    To be direct and honest is not safe.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of—well, instead of the sort we are at present.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)