Deng Xiaoping Quotes

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

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

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

The minority must bow to the majority.

Everything, everywhere, shall be decided by majority vote.

Majority rule is not the norm for solving issues or problems.

A majority can do anything.

Parliamentary government is simply a mild and disguised form of compulsion. We agree to try strength by counting heads instead of breaking heads, but the principle is exactly the same... The minority gives way not because it is convinced that it is wrong, but because it is convinced that it is a minority.

The majority is not society, is not everyone. Majority coercion over the minority is still coercion.

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

If we had a consensus we wouldn't have to go to a referendum.

As for our majority... one is enough.

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.

We should not allow the minority to control the majority by requiring super majorities on budget related votes.

Reason will conclude that where multitude is, there is the truth.

A majority is always the best repartee.

Well then, the ayes have it.

The majority prevails in a democracy, eventually.

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

Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

The will of the majority will be respected.

Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.

When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.