Majority Rule Quotes

20 quotes by 17 authors

• The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure… — Ayn Rand
• But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. — Henry David Thoreau
• Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks… — P.J. O'Rourke
• Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network… — Mary Parker Follett
• The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil… — Walter Lippmann
• Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things .... it's not only worth dying for; it… — P.J. O'Rourke
• The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys freedom,… — Henry Grady Weaver
• "All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In every instance its… — Emma Goldman
• America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things. — Kent Conrad
• 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, the… — Joseph Campbell
• The young [Nazi] movement is in its nature and inner organization anti-parliamentarian; that is, it rejects... a principle of majority rule in which the leader… — Adolf Hitler
• By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins against… — Adolf Hitler
• Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. — Jefferson Davis
• Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for… — Larry Flynt
• The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. — Harper Lee
• The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority. — Walter Lippmann
• The Left likes to think of itself as the bulwark of progressive liberal individualism, and yet it seeks to progressively coerce others to fund every… — Dave Brat
• In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of… — Robert W. Welch, Jr.
• Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's… — Atticus
• Can you imagine anything so ridiculous as majority rule? — Daffy Duck

Who Wrote These Majority Rule Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 20 Majority Rule Quotes as follows:

• 2 Majority Rule Quotes by Adolf Hitler
• 2 Majority Rule Quotes by P.J. O'Rourke
• 2 Majority Rule Quotes by Walter Lippmann
• 1 Majority Rule Quote by Henry Grady Weaver
• 1 Majority Rule Quote by Emma Goldman
• 1 Majority Rule Quote by Kent Conrad
• 1 Majority Rule Quote by Joseph Campbell
• 1 Majority Rule Quote by Jefferson Davis
• 1 Majority Rule Quote by Larry Flynt
• 1 Majority Rule Quote by Harper Lee
• 1 Majority Rule Quote by Dave Brat
• 1 Majority Rule Quote by Robert W. Welch, Jr.
• 1 Majority Rule Quote by Atticus
• 1 Majority Rule Quote by Daffy Duck
• 1 Majority Rule Quote by Ayn Rand
• 1 Majority Rule Quote by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Majority Rule Quote by Mary Parker Follett