Action Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules.

— Evan Esar

Majority decision is not always the right decision, and the minority cannot be compelled to abide by it.

— Manja Bayang

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.

— Llewellyn Rockwell

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

Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even if we…

— William J. Murray

A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the…

— Abraham Lincoln

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…

— Mary Parker Follett

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,…

— Joseph Campbell

A fatal defect in majority rule is that by its very nature it abolishes itself. Majority rule must inevitably become minority rule: the majority…

— Mary Parker Follett

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