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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.

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
Women, Majority Rule, Numbers
Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.7, Penn State Press

The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.

Ilana Mercer
Rights, Majority Rule, Liberty
"Life, Liberty and Property". www.wnd.com. May 15, 2009.

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
Block, Law, Majority Rule

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 Rule, America, Democracy
Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.

Robert Ringer
Majority Rule, Fancy, Unlimited

One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.

Noam Chomsky
Rights, Majority Rule, Democracy
Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.

Noam Chomsky
Rights, Majority Rule, Democracy
Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

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
Years, Majority Rule, America

After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Hands, Majority Rule
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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