Community Quote by Murray Rothbard

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Albert Camus

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

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 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

Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.

— Walt Kelly

In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should…

— Walter Lippmann

“Society is, always has been and always will be a structure for the exploitation and oppression of the majority through systems of political force…

— Richard Morgan

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

“The active minority in the world is the fraction that makes the world a better place for the passive majority.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

In a racially divided society, majority rule is not a reliable instrument of democracy.

— Lani Guinier

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