Country Quote by Nelson Mandela

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

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

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

— Albert Camus

Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.

— Noam Chomsky

“DEMOCRACY is a form of leading state in which the right and power" must be in the hands of the people and absolutely must…

— Khem Veasna

Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the chances of…

— Robert Kennedy

One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.

— Noam Chomsky

The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit…

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of…

— Vladimir Lenin

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

Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.

— Anonymous

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has…

— James Russell Lowell