Majoritarian Quotes

#1. Political decisions are by definition monopolistic, disenfranchising and despotically majoritarian; markets are good at supplying minority needs.

Matt Ridley

#2. Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the people. We're bound to be "anti-majoritarian."

Rose Bird

#3. The detention of Japanese Americans during World War II would qualify as an example of majoritarian tyranny and misuse of executive prerogative, driven by fear and racial bias.

Michael Ignatieff

#4. What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

Barack Obama

#5. The familiar changes as we cling to it.

Mason Cooley

#6. The more I found, the less I understood.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#7. Be still my soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. The situation has gone so far past the point of insanity it's come around and become mundane again.

C.T. Phipps

#9. Equality, absolutely, that's what defines us. It's what makes us great. If it doesn't sit well with your religion, let your God sort it out in the end, but that's us. We're equal

Brad Pitt

#10. I was his comfort object, and what he asked for, I did.

Annabel Joseph

#11. I would think you'd be grateful, puppy. Kill some rabids, burn down a church - I don't see a downside here, do you?

Julie Kagawa

#12. it is said to currently account for at least half and sometimes over 70 percent of all stock trades, which means that most trades are generated by computer programs rather than a human decision.

John F. Groom

#13. If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie!

George Clooney