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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
tyranny-of-the-majority shields anonymity
Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. John Paul Stevens
minorities majority looks
Look at all the minorities around here! I'm the only majority. Louis C. K.
minorities vegan enough
I recently became vegan because I felt that as a Jewish lesbian, I wasn't part of a small enough minority. So now I'm a Jewish lesbian vegan. Carol Leifer
minorities rewards fool
The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money. Adam Smith
minorities done proud
How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself... I'm very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag. Cristina Saralegui
minorities armenia armenians
Armenia was always a minority nation. The Armenians were annihilated by the Russians and then by the Turks. Ernst Kaltenbrunner
minorities majority-and-minority catchy
A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority. Henry David Thoreau
minorities lunatic
You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one. George Orwell
minorities may acid
The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority. Francis Crick
minorities majority behavior
The majority should not be punished and subjected to a licensing curfew because of the bad behavior of the minority. Tessa Jowell