Bill of rights Quote by Noam Chomsky

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

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

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

— Albert Camus

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

Some have argued that the United States was designed to block majority rule; to be a 'republic, not a democracy.' This is ahistorical nonsense.

— Mehdi Hasan

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

Democracy only has substance if there's the rule of law. That is, if people believe that the votes are going to be counted, and…

— Timothy D. Snyder

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

— Thomas Jefferson

“democracy is not simply order and rationality displayed in voting, structured decision making, and legislating, but that it also and necessarily is contentious affect…

— Carl DiSalvo

Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.

— George Soros

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

— Noam Chomsky

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

— Aristotle