Capable Quote by Edmund Burke

In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will…

— Edmund Burke

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

— William E. Gladstone

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

— Paul Robeson

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

— Albert Camus

A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of…

— Vladimir Lenin

I think there is not enough understanding of the fact that in a democracy how you treat the security of the minority must be…

— Shabana Azmi

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

— Noam Chomsky

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

— Lord Acton

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve…

— Lord Acton

Democracy appears to me potentially a higher form of political organization than any kind of dictatorship. But if it turns out that in America,…

— Benjamin Spock

With growing and intermixed minority populations, our democracy can not work optimally unless all people are integrated as full and equal members, and I…

— Richard Benjamin

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

— Henry David Thoreau