Quote by

...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former.

…the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former.
– Theodore Roosevelt

Related Quotes:

  1. A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy. – Theodore Roosevelt
  2. 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
  3. Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right. – GK Chesterton
  4. Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong. – Amit Kalantri
  5. -¦majority rule gives the ruthless strong man plenty of elbow room to oppress his fellows. – Robert A Heinlein
  6. Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. – Julian Barnes
  7. The active minority in the world is the fraction that makes the world a better place for the passive majority. – Israelmore Ayivor
  8. History honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget. – Suzy Kassem
  9. History does not remember the forgettable. It honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget. – Suzy Kassem
  10. A single man is minority, a leader is the majority. – Amit Kalantri
  11. The majority of everything has always been judged and manipulated by and on a minority’s deeds – Deon Potgieter
  12. Majority does not mean Right. Minority does not mean Wrong. Always maintain a stand for what is right. – Maisie A Smikle
  13. I hate that the actions of a minority can influence the opinions of a majority. – Sarah Ayoub
  14. The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority. – Philip K
  15. Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long. – James Thurber
  16. I must look at the ‘nature’ of God, not the ‘nature’ of the challenge. For the former means everything and the latter means nothing. – Craig D Lounsbrough
  17. I do not walk into the storm unless I have been called into the storm. For the former is arrogance and the latter is obedience. – Craig D Lounsbrough
  18. There are people one knows and people one doesn’t. One shouldn’t cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter. – Tony Horwitz
  19. Rights’ are -˜privileges,’ and if I am arrogant enough to demand the former without respecting the latter I will lose both. – Craig D Lounsbrough
  20. We must clean the lens of our hearts to see the state of our souls. However, too often the former is too dirty to even know that the latter exists. – Craig D Lounsbrough
  21. The world needs many more humanitarians than it needs warriors, but there can be none of the former without enough of the latter. – Eric Greitens
  22. The difference between a -˜man’ and a -˜father’ is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life. – Craig D Lounsbrough
  23. The Future is as avoidable as the past is alterable, for the latter is, after all, a consequence of the former: A combination of choice and fate. – KC King
  24. Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. – Democritus
  25. Good can exist without evil,but evil cannot exist without good.The former is eternal,the latter is temporal. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  26. Never bet anything on men’s stupidity and on women’s virginity; the former believe they aren’t, while the latter believe they might be. – MF Moonzajer
  27. I’d rather know a man’s sincerity than his love. Whereas I have never needed the latter, one can always count on the former. – Donna Lynn Hope
  28. The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it withing his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter. – Norman Cousins
  29. …That’s the difference between backpackers and holiday makers. The former can’t help but invite hassle whilst the latter pay to escape it. – Harry Whitewolf
  30. Self-reflection is a kind of self-judgment. The difference is just this -“ the former is positive and the latter is negative. – Balroop Singh
  31. Curiosity is a worthwhile virtue than certainty. While the former leads to grow, the latter muzzles your growth and results in stagnation… – Assegid Habtewold
  32. I could displace the mystery of my speech onto writing, the latter perhaps recharging the former – Ben Lerner
  33. There’s a difference between playing and playing games. The former is an act of joy, the latter -” an act. – Vera Nazarian
  34. What’s the point of having beliefs and values if we don’t stand up for the former and live by the latter? – Colleen PatrickGoudreau
  35. There is a very great difference between older and old, the former being desirable and the latter being inevitable. – Michelle Franklin
  36. For the minority, what else is democracy than dictatorship? – Anna Jae
  37. Ideas tyrannize the man who has but few. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
  38. We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. – Thomas Jefferson
  39. You would be much amused with the animals round the ranch. – Theodore Roosevelt
  40. The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered. – Theodore Roosevelt

More Quotes

, , , , , , , , , ,