The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
You can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner. — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
The only thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule. — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Some have argued that the United States was designed to block majority rule; to be a 'republic, not a democracy.' This is… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the… — Olympia Snowe Copy Share Image
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Democracy meant all men were to be heard, and a decision was taken together as a people. Majority rule was a foreign… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
[Proportional representation is a] device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
I call government that works the best for people open society, which is basically just another more general term for a democracy… — George Soros Copy Share Image
“Majority rule cannot always be called fairness. Regardless of their depth of feeling, each person is impartially given the right to a… — Kouji Ouji Copy Share Image
Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even… — William J. Murray Copy Share Image
The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I support the right of the individual, the right of the most individuals to get what they want. That is all majority… — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
The democratic ideal springs from the ideas of liberty, equality, majority rule through free elections, protection of the rights of minorities, and… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
“How do I hate the tide of vulgar thought! Profane, unjust, with childish folly fraught; It breaks and bends the rays of… — Jean de la Fontaine Copy Share Image
“The history of the government of the United States under the present Constitution is a long history of rule by minorities. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The success of totalitarian movements among the masses meant the end of two illusions of democratically ruled countries in general and of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
In a racially divided society, majority rule is not a reliable instrument of democracy. — Lani Guinier Copy Share Image
A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability. — Robert Ringer Copy Share Image
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Far from an excess of majority rule, American democracy has seen the rise of minority rule, with efforts to entrench it in… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes… — Kent Conrad Copy Share Image
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![“[Proportional representation is a] device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists of all kinds into Parliament, and establishing groups and disintegrating parties.” quote by David Lloyd George](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/101/david-lloyd-george-9272_all-kinds_proportional-representation-is-a-device_1563390.jpg)
![“How do I hate the tide of vulgar thought! Profane, unjust, with childish folly fraught; It breaks and bends the rays of truth divine, And by its own conceptions measures mine. [...] Hippocrates arrived in season, Just as his patient (void of reason!) Was searching whether reason's home, In talking…” quote by Jean de la Fontaine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6ca/jean-de-la-fontaine-2320_insanity_how-do-i-hate-the-tide-of-vulgar-thought_3003801.jpg)
![“A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.” quote by Robert Ringer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d27/robert-ringer-15596_facade_a-lynch-mob-is-unlimited-majority-rule-s_2335465.jpg)
