Majority Will Quotes

'Democratic' in its original meaning refers to unlimited majority rule....a social system in which one's work, one's property, one's mind, and one's life are at the mercy of any gang that may muster the vote of a majority at any moment for any purpose

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same

A democrat need not believe that the majority will always reach a wise decision. He should however believe in the necessity of accepting the decision of the majority, be it wise or unwise, until such a time that the majority reaches another decision.

The judges must be many, for, if few, they will always follow the behests of the few.

Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon the nobility of a race, not on the merits of talents and of riches. It merely rests upon numbers and hides behind the name of the people.

I have been a Democrat all my life and accustomed to the rule of the majority. If a majority of this crowd want me to stop speaking, I will stop. If the majority want me to continue, I will speak on regardless of you and your company.

A democratic government must always be left free to be operated upon by the will of the majority of the time being. All that the government of the day can do is to ascertain what now appears to be the best principle.

The law, the will of the majority expressed in orderly, constitutional methods, is the only king to which we bow.

The majority is still at the General's disposal.

Wherever the sentiment of the majority is still genuine and intense, it is found to have abated little of its claim to be obeyed.

There is no maxim ... which is more liable to be misapplied ... than the current one that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

The majority of people wherever found ought in all questions to govern the minority.

That’s one difficulty about a democracy. Nothing ever gets decided—even after its been decided.

This... [is] a country where the will of the majority is the law, and ought to be the law

If a majority be united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure.

The majority prevails in a democracy, eventually.

Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.

How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed.

The majority in this country have not seen anything wrong with Zuma. I go with the overwhelming feeling of this country. If the majority say, 'Zuma, do this,' I will do it.

Majoritarian is when a majority takes a decision. It is not dictatorship. It is about which issue is major.

It is when it is contended that in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.

The minority yields to the majority!

We must reflect more on what democracy in the exercise of authority would mean. Is truth determined by a majority vote, only for a new 'truth' to be 'discovered' by a new majority tomorrow?

It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.