Majority Power Quotes

I warn against the tyranny of the majority of the people with good table manners.

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.

The political party having the majority ... [will] necessarily control all the committees ... because they ... must, as a party, protect themselves against the chance of the control of the business of the body going into the hands of their opponents.

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.

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

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 disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

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.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

As for our majority... one is enough.

The majority never has right on its side.

The Democrats were in the majority in the U.S. Senate when we voted for the Iraq war and passed the U.S. Patriot Act. It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.

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

You are the majority in number and intelligence; therefore you are the force—which is justice.

There is a qualitative difference between being a minority and being a majority. Majorities are stronger under psychological pressure because numbers count. But only if they are aware of it.

Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.

The will of the majority will be respected.

I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns. But then they really decided that they liked being in the majority for the first time in forty years, and they wanted to get some things done, and I agreed, to get things I wanted. It was all perfectly transparent. Everybody knew what they wanted and what I wanted.

A majority is always the best repartee.

The minority yields to the majority!

I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority... in less than 20 years.

I grew up in that minority. I grew up in the South, in Roswell, Georgia, and it was heavily white, Baptist, conservative. And the idea that somebody would come there and say those things that I said created an atmosphere where some people would walk out, and suddenly they weren't in the minority. For an hour and a half, they were the majority. So I would argue that it does need to be said.

A minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat is ever quite imaginary.