Related Quotes
All quotes about:
majority-rule liberty principles
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
majority-rule organization people
The young [Nazi] movement is in its nature and inner organization anti-parliamentarian; that is, it rejects... a principle of majority rule in which the leader is degraded to the level of mere executant of other people's wills and opinion. Adolf Hitler
majority-rule numbers democracy
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...
majority-rule political minorities
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
majority-rule political politics
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. Jefferson Davis
majority-rule cynical wish
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-rule america years
America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things. Kent Conrad
majority-rule tyranny-of-the-majority minorities
Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable. Thomas Jefferson
majority-rule fancy unlimited
A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability. Robert Ringer
cynical fear incredibly iraq sentiment
The American sentiment after 9-11, the heartbreak, the fear and the anger, all of that was used to get us into Iraq and I think that's incredibly cynical for them to have done that, Chris Wright
cynical truth
The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth. Patrick Ness
cynical issue mandates state
You can be very cynical and say we don't have a choice. We don't do anything, the state will come in and issue mandates or take it over.
cynical
I really try, at least consciously, not to be cynical or ironic. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
cynical grateful immense
He said, 'I'm just grateful for the work'. I thought he would be cynical like me, but he had this immense gratitude. Winona Ryder
cynical deep living original sadness seems
He is cynical because he doesnt want to get hurt. You can find the original Chow when hes alone. You feel his sadness and his loneliness. When hes with other people, he seems to be happy. But deep down, hes still living with his past.
cynical life-is worst
The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete. Carlos Santana
cynical kind easy
It's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set. Benedict Cumberbatch
cynical want sides
'Peace' is when nobody's shooting. A 'just peace' is when our side gets what it wants. Bill Mauldin
wish want firsts
The first day of the rest of my life, and I’m not sure I want to be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really don’t feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn’t bothered. Cecelia Ahern
wish mars reason
Whatever the reason you're on Mars, I'm glad you're there, and I wish I was with you. Carl Sagan
wish prejudice cosmos
Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
wish sitting lasts
It is my last wish to be burried sitting up. Bette Davis
wish helping enjoy
I do enjoy them. I get to meet the next generation of comics and help them out. Big comics doing small shows was something that used to happen a lot more back in the day. I wish there was more of that. Bill Burr
wish would-be leisure
The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. Bertrand Russell
wish causes typical
The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.
wish world common
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation ... it is common to wish well to oneself, but in our technically unified world, wishing well to oneself is sure to be futile unless it is combined with wishing well to others.
wish ifs seeing
If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.