Quotes by Majority Rule The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority. Lord Acton majority-ruledemocracies-haveevil 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 majority-ruleminoritiesdemocracy 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 majority-rulewomennumbers One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule. Noam Chomsky majority-ruledemocracyrights 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 majority-rulecynicaldemocracy Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example. Noam Chomsky majority-ruledemocracyrights A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability. Robert Ringer majority-rulefancyunlimited 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. Rush Limbaugh majority-ruledemocracyamerica 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 oligarchymajority-ruledemocracy the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Thomas Jefferson majority-rulerightslaw Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable. Thomas Jefferson tyranny-of-the-majoritymajority-ruleminorities The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority. Walter Lippmann ethicalmajority-rulepolitics 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. William J. Murray majority-ruledemocracymen Good, law-abiding, value-oriented citizens are the ultimate in hypocrisy; "majority rules" and the law are exactly the same as being the biggest bully on the block with the biggest stick-it is only might that allows one group to force another to live by its code of conduct. William J. Murray majority-ruleblocklaw«12
