Majority Rule Quotes

Majority Rule Quote of the day

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable.

the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

You can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

In a racially divided society, majority rule is not a reliable instrument of democracy.

But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.

Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.

One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.

Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.

America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.

Rather than signalling the aspiration for system of checks and balances against absolute power, democracy become a euphemism for majority rule.