In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
Democracy is the only civilized way to govern a country.
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.
The majority is not society, is not everyone. Majority coercion over the minority is still coercion.
The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.