Democracy Quote by Nelson Mandela

“...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“For the minority, what else is democracy than dictatorship?”

— Anna Jae

“Democracy is about the majority understanding that minorities have rights too.”

— Gavin Esler

“There was something called democracy. As though men were more than physico-chemically equal.”

— Aldous Huxley

“It was a reign of minority, when the strongest had the best right, and when acts of usurpation were frequent amongst those who had…

— Walter Scott

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

— Albert Camus

“Democracy is essentially government by the majority, and a majority may be stupid, unenlightened, foolish, misled, and corrupt.”

— John Hospers

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

“Dictatorship of the majority over the minority would be an encroachment on the rights of the individual and their prerogative to personal freedom.”

— Newton Lee

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

— Aristotle

“Yet democracy is on the whole inferior to aristocracy.92 For it is based on a false assumption of equality; it “arises out of the…

— Will Durant

“Democracy means that people respect the rights of others, including the right to be different.”

— Jerome Nathanson