Majoritarianism Democracy Quotes

#1. The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.

Ron Paul

#2. What keeps me sane the most is, honestly, the Serenity Prayer.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#3. Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#4. The United States is democratic because its people live in conformity. It is the perfect country for mice.

Warren Eyster

#5. Lotus flowers blossom while rooted in mud, a reminder that beauty and grace can rise above something ugly.

Lisa Genova

#6. The acting life is different than I thought it would be. I love it - it's actually a lot less pressure than I thought it would be.

Melanie Lynskey

#7. No single individual, however eccentric or brilliant, could affect the enormous inertia of a society that had remained virtually unchanged for over a billion years.

Arthur C. Clarke

#8. Each segment of the worm is directly reproduced as a whole worm, just as each cell of the American CEO can produce a new CEO.

Jean Baudrillard

#9. I am very worried about this concentration of power, and it's not only because of Erdogan. We have the ballot box, but we don't have the culture of democracy. The government says: You see, we have the majority, we're entitled to do anything we want. But that's not democracy, that's majoritarianism.

Elif Safak

#10. Fidelity in marriage requires self-will and self-denial.

Philip Zaleski

#11. I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they're just extra sensitive.

Spike Lee

#12. For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. It was literally everything to me."
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Pittacus Lore

#14. Horrible to say, in a manner I am a Communist.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#15. Trustworthiness is a mark of a success-minded person. To be seen as trustworthy is a great compliment. When people trust you, they expect that you will honor their trust.

John Patrick Hickey

#16. America has never been a pure democracy and majoritarianism has always been as much feared as monarchism.

Mark Levin