Democracy Quote by Anonymous

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

— E. B. White

Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule;…

— William Allen White

It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

— Albert Camus

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,…

— Joseph Campbell

Democracy is based on the majority principle. This is especially true in a country such as ours where the vast majority have been systematically…

— Nelson Mandela

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

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

— Howard Zinn

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

— Robert Caro

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

— Noam Chomsky

“Democracy is about the majority understanding that minorities have rights too.”

— Gavin Esler

Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient…

— Ben Fountain