Coercion Quote by Walter Lippmann

“The democratic system cannot be operated without effective opposition. For, in making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion,…

— Walter Lippmann

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

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Albert Camus

If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of…

— Lysander Spooner

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

Majority decision is not always the right decision, and the minority cannot be compelled to abide by it.

— Manja Bayang

The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of…

— Lysander Spooner

At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the right, or…

— James Madison

“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, 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

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the…

— Eric Hoffer