Always wrong Quote by Joseph Campbell

Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule;…

— William Allen White

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

Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population once enslaved…

— Howard Zinn

People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are…

— Walter Judd

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 majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

— Henrik Ibsen

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

— Albert Camus

Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

— Anonymous

The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal of democracy…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress... it is always from a…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

If, in a democracy, the cognition of the majority is not much better than the cognition of the sheep, democracy will surely fail.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Democracy is based on the majority principle. This is especially true in a country such as ours where the vast majority have been systematically…

— Nelson Mandela