Reid Hoffman Quotes

When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.

You can get together, you can talk as much as you want, but if there's not a decision-making process - that's where democracy really matters.

The era of roadside decisions, declarations have gone. My government's decisions will be guided by teamwork and consultations.

Consensus isn't just about agreement. It's about changing things around: You get a proposal, you work something out, people foresee problems, you do creative synthesis. At the end of it, you come up with something that everyone thinks is okay. Most people like it, and nobody hates it.

Just because a group does not take its decisions by voting does not mean they have no understanding of the essence of democracy.

The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.

From the beginning of my episcopacy, I made up my mind to do nothing on my own private opinion, without your advice and without the consent of the people.

The reality is that government is a participative process.

Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal.

Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate at other times. Without this mutual disposition we are disjointed individuals, but not a society.

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

There is no name for all who participate in group decision-making or the organization which they form. I propose to call this organization the Technostructure.

You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.

Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.

Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.

We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.

It is assumed in many parts of the world that democracy is a group of people facing a certain problem, who come together to solve it in a way where everyone has an equal say.

The people must know that from this day on, we want their opinions.

In many senses, 'Borgen' was a very democratic show. I was always invited to hear the writers' thoughts for the next episodes and allowed to comment on them.

In a peer network, no one is officially in charge. It doesn't have a command hierarchy. It doesn't have a boss. So, all the decisions are somehow made collectively. The control of the system is in the hands of everyone who is a part of it.

Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

Everything, everywhere, shall be decided by majority vote.