202 Quotes About Majority

So the question remains: why should we regard majority rule as morally special? Why should a part of the people – even the larger part – decide for the whole?

Dictatorships are ramifications of the ignorant and misguided few , which are then imposed upon and suffered, by the many!.

.. the homemade wisdom of the parliamentary nursery: in order to carry anything, you must first have a majority. The same, they say, applies to revolution: first let's become a "majority." The true dialectic of revolutions, however, stands this wisdom of parliamentary moles on its head: not through a majority to revolutionary tactics, but through revolutionary tactics to a majority - that is the way the road runs.

I regard as impious and detestable the maxim that in matters of government the majority of a people has the right to do everything, and nevertheless I place the origin of all powers in the wishes of the majority. Am I in contradiction with myself?There exists a general law which has been made, or at least adopted not only by the majority of this or that people but by the majority of all men. This law is justice. Justice thus forms the limit to the right of each people.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice

The majority is almost always wrong. The crowd is untruth. Scapegoating is demonic.

The majority merely disagreed with other people's proposals, and, as so often happens in these disasters, the best course always seemed the one for which it was now too late.

How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skeleton of our understanding, ... and actually they are the majority. ... We have here a problem that is not easy of solution, but yet must engage the attention of all who wish to devote themselves to education.

Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end.