The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.
If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.
Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
One with the law is a majority.