...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
The only thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The theory I have in mind is one which does not proceed, as it were, from a doctrine of the intrinsic goodness… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
A fatal defect in majority rule is that by its very nature it abolishes itself. Majority rule must inevitably become minority rule:… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking,… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism… — Mary Parker Follett 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
Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
It's precisely because America is not a democracy that we have survived! It's precisely because majority rule does have checks and balances… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Democracy rests on the principle of majority rule, yet it’s eternally coupled with the tolerance of dissenting views. However, ongoing competitive party… — Ramkrishna Guru Copy Share Image
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 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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 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
the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
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