Mobutu Sese Seko Quotes

The majority prevails in a democracy, eventually.

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

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

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

As for our majority... one is enough.

Logically, in a society ostensibly grounded on representative government, it would seem reasonable that a majority of the people in a State would elect a majority of that State’s legislators.

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.

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

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

The majority voice should be controlling ... after a full, fair, and candid expression.

In a democracy, you must follow the will of the majority, which may be right or wrong, moral or immoral, just or unjust. If that's the ruling of the majority that is what you should follow, respect, and obey — although you may continue to disagree with it.

The ballot box is a license to govern, not a mandate to rule.

Supreme power rests in the will of all or of the majority.

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

The minority must bow to the majority.

We don't go against the will of the people.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

The minority yields to the majority!

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.

When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

In history, the millions win; that is democracy.

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.