Majority And Minority Quotes

Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.

The minority yields to the majority!

That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.

The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

Democracy is for infidels. A real Muslim is not a democrat because he doesn't care about the opinions of majorities and minorities don't interest him. He is only interested in what Islam says.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

Desperate courage makes One a majority.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.

the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

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