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  • The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.

    "Life, Liberty and Property". www.wnd.com. May 15, 2009.
  • It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

  • Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished majority confronts a small, wealthy oligarchy.

    Samuel P. Huntington (2012). “The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late 20th Century”, p.66, University of Oklahoma Press
  • Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.

    "Why Hate Monarchs?". mises.org. August 2001.
  • When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

    Speech at trial, Cleveland, Ohio, 12 Sept. 1918 See Ibsen 16; Sydney Smith 14
  • Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.

    Life   Brother   Book  
    P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.207, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

    John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.103, Jazzybee Verlag
  • 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 actually lived in a pure democracy (and the system we do live in is not even close), where everyone got a single vote on every subject, forcing the minority to obey the majority is no different to one man, if he had the power, forcing everyone else to do what he wanted them to-simply because he could.

  • Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

    Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, Chartwell
  • It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

    Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony
  • Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

  • It's precisely because America is not a democracy that we have survived! It's precisely because majority rule does have checks and balances on it. It's precisely because this is a representative republic that we have survived.

    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

    Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.2, Cambridge University Press
  • The democratic ideal springs from the ideas of liberty, equality, majority rule through free elections, protection of the rights of minorities, and freedom to subscribe to multiple loyalties in matters of religion, economics, and politics rather than to a total loyalty to the state. The spirit of democracy is the idea of importance and worth in the individual, and faith in the kind of world where the individual can achieve as much of his potential as possible.

    Loyalty   Spring   Rights  
    Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.24, Vintage
  • A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.

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

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

    Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com
  • the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

    First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801
  • America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.

  • ...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

    Christopher Sergel, Harper Lee (1995). “The Play of To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Heinemann
  • 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 network of human relations.

    Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.7, Penn State Press
  • Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed. Except in the sacred tests of democracy and in the incantations of the orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force.

    War   Army   Blood  
    Walter Lippmann (2003). “Men of Destiny (Ppr)”, p.58, Transaction Publishers
  • By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins against the basic aristocratic principle of Nature.

    Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

    To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 11 (1960)
  • A fatal defect in majority rule is that by its very nature it abolishes itself. Majority rule must inevitably become minority rule: the majority is too big to handle itself; it organizes itself into committees ... which in their turn resolve themselves into a committee of one.

    Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.143, Penn State Press
  • Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things .... it's not only worth dying for; it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza.

    P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.207, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • I call government that works the best for people open society, which is basically just another more general term for a democracy that is - you call it maybe a liberal democracy. It's not only majority rule but also respect for minorities and minority opinions and the rule of law. So it's really a sort of institutional democracy.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.

    Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.522, Penguin
  • The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

    Walter Lippmann (2011). “The Phantom Public”, p.48, Transaction Publishers
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