Collectivism Quote by Ayn Rand

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Thomas Jefferson

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political…

— Ayn Rand

[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government…

— Woodrow Wilson

“How many votes does it take to get the United States of America firmly into the legal nightmare described in Gabriel’s Stand? Sixty seven…

— Jay B. Gaskill

We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.

— Horace Mann

Donald Trump could win the presidency without a popular-vote majority only because both parties have been locked into base-turnout strategies that are partially responsible…

— Ross Douthat

Don't make decisions by majority vote. The majority is almost always wrong.

— Adrian Rogers

In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should…

— Walter Lippmann

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.

— Soren Kierkegaard

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

— Lord Acton

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs…

— Henry David Thoreau

Democracy is for infidels. A real Muslim is not a democrat because he doesn't care about the opinions of majorities and minorities don't interest…

— Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of…

— John Adams