Majority rule Quotes

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

— Walter Lippmann

The young [Nazi] movement is in its nature and inner organization anti-parliamentarian; that is, it rejects... a principle of majority rule in…

— Adolf Hitler

Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those…

— P. J. O'Rourke

"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In…

— Emma Goldman

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives…

— James Madison

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Good, law-abiding, value-oriented citizens are the ultimate in hypocrisy; "majority rules" and the law are exactly the same as being the biggest…

— William J. Murray

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

— Lani Guinier

Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a…

— Samuel P. Huntington

...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

— Harper Lee

Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population…

— Howard Zinn

Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things .... it's not only worth…

— P. J. O'Rourke

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

— Thomas Jefferson

The democratic ideal springs from the ideas of liberty, equality, majority rule through free elections, protection of the rights of minorities, and…

— Saul Alinsky

By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority…

— Adolf Hitler

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

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Ilana Mercer

After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

I call government that works the best for people open society, which is basically just another more general term for a democracy…

— George Soros

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

— Larry Flynt

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

— Llewellyn Rockwell

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

— Lord Acton

“Yet in his own estimate, one theme in particular dominated all others: the growing tyranny of the majority, the ever-increasing and most…

— Richard D. Heffner

“The success of totalitarian movements among the masses meant the end of two illusions of democratically ruled countries in general and of…

— Hannah Arendt

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

— Robert Ringer