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  • The terrible tyranny of the majority. -- Ray Bradbury
  • Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. -- John Paul Stevens
  • The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority. -- Lord Acton
  • The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings. -- Arthur Balfour
  • Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority. -- William Inge
  • Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority. -- Maggie Gallagher
  • Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102) -- Cornel West
  • Democracy, which began by liberating man politically, has developed a dangerous tendency to enslave him through the tyranny of majorities and the deadly power of their opinion. -- Ludwig Lewisohn
  • Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen. -- Ray Bradbury
  • 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. -- Lord Acton
  • [The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to protect the people against bureaucracy, against the government. -- Laurence Tribe
  • The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority. -- Phillip E. Johnson
  • The Founders understood that democracy was important, but if you didn't filter it through a republican system you'd be just as likely to end up with a tyranny of the majority as you would with a healthy society. Don't worry, I won't quote the Federalist Papers, but trust me, it's in there. -- Jonah Goldberg
  • 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. -- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
  • The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason. -- David Ogilvy
  • More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority. -- Emma Goldman
  • the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny. -- Anna Quindlen
  • The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency. -- Albert Einstein
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