Majority Rule Quotes
20 quotes by 17 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
— Jefferson Davis
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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
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
— Harper Lee
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The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.
— Walter Lippmann
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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
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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.
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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
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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: