Cases Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of…

— Lysander Spooner

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Its minority rule and majority limited rights. In fact it's set up that way. If you read the framers of the constitution, including James…

— Noam Chomsky

Men agree that justice in the abstract is proportion, but they differ in that some think that if they are equal in any respect…

— Aristotle

The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for…

— Walter Lippmann

A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The ruling of men is the effort to direct the individual actions of many persons toward some end. This end theoretically should be the…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules.

— Evan Esar

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the…

— Victoria Woodhull

Rules of Order state that ... No minority has a right to block a majority from conducting the legal business of the organisation ....…

— Robert M. Pirsig