Anarchist Quote by Lysander Spooner

If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become…

— Lysander Spooner

“it is undeniable, that the rule of a majority may be almost as hostile to freedom as the rule of a minority: the divine…

— Anonymous

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

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

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will,…

— Thomas Jefferson

The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.

— Mahatma Gandhi

[Proportional representation is a] device for defeating democracy, the principle of which was that the majority should rule, and for bringing faddists of all…

— David Lloyd George

By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins…

— Adolf Hitler

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 rests on the principle of majority rule, yet it’s eternally coupled with the tolerance of dissenting views. However, ongoing competitive party politics has…

— Ramkrishna Guru

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

— Thomas Jefferson

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…

— Adolf Hitler