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majority-rule liberty principles
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny. Ayn Rand
majority-rule organization people
The young [Nazi] movement is in its nature and inner organization anti-parliamentarian; that is, it rejects... a principle of majority rule in which the leader is degraded to the level of mere executant of other people's wills and opinion. Adolf Hitler
majority-rule numbers democracy
By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins against the basic aristocratic principle of Nature...
majority-rule cynical wish
Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things .... it's not only worth dying for; it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. P. J. O'Rourke
majority-rule political politics
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. Jefferson Davis
majority-rule political minorities
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
majority-rule america years
America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things. Kent Conrad
majority-rule tyranny-of-the-majority minorities
Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable. Thomas Jefferson
majority-rule fancy unlimited
A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability. Robert Ringer
numbers worry firsts
My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in. I call that worrying, It has happened to me a number of times after that first time. Carlos Castaneda
numbers jewels scales
The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale. Carl Friedrich Gauss
numbers important problem
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
numbers endurance vices
The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number. Charles Caleb Colton
numbers sides smallest
The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands. Charles Simmons
numbers people wish
There is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business. Brent Spiner
numbers speak
We know we don't get a lot of attention. We just feel we're a numbers team. We let our numbers speak for us. Selvin Young
numbers bills constitution
I`ve passed on a number of bills. I`ve studied the Constitution myself. I am reasonably well educated. Dianne Feinstein
numbers government cells
It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government can continue to participate in this vital research and provide hope to the millions of Americans with diseases that might be cured.
democracy courageous problem
Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership. Charles Edison
democracy easy disappear
It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear. Brian Eno
democracy firsts germany
After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first. Brent Scowcroft
democracy election
Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.
democracy knows ifs
You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history. David McCullough
democracy humans corporate
We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both. David Korten
democracy way communism
Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.
democracy unions leon
Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy! C. Wright Mills
democracy independence lebanese mean second
This was a second independence for us, and one that was made by the Lebanese people. It can only mean that accountability and democracy will advance.