A Quote by John Paul Stevens

Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.

John Paul Stevens

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John Paul Stevens
American - Judge
Born: April 20, 1920

A desire for privacy does not imply shameful secrets; Moglen argues, again and again, that without anonymity in discourse, free speech is impossible, and hence also democracy. The right to speak the truth to power does not shield the speaker from the consequences of doing so; only comparable power or anonymity can do that.

Nick Harkaway

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

John Dalberg-Acton

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Montesquieu

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

Montesquieu

The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.

Phillip E. Johnson

The terrible tyranny of the majority.

Ray Bradbury

The priesthood of God is a shield. It is a shield against the evils of the world. That shield needs to be kept clean; otherwise, our vision of our purpose and the dangers around us will be limited.

James E. Faust

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

Lord Acton

The very concept of law that protects us from tyranny has been lost. No longer the people's shield, law has become a weapon in the hands of government.

Paul Craig Roberts

Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority.

William Inge

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

Walter Bagehot

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

Maggie Gallagher

More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.

Emma Goldman

the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny.

Anna Quindlen

Majorities are of two sorts: (1) communal majority and (2) political majority. A political majority is changeable in its class composition. A political majority grows. A communal majority is born. The admission to a political majority is open. The door to a communal majority is closed. The politics of political majority are free to all to make and unmake. The politics of communal majority are made by its own members born in it.

B. R. Ambedkar

To rail and rant against tyranny is to manifest inferiority, for there is no tyranny but ignorance; to be conscious of one's powers is to lose consciousness of tyranny. Self government is not a remote aim. It is an intimate and inescapable fact. To govern oneself is a natural imperative, and all tyranny is the miscarriage of self government. The first requisite of freedom is to accept responsibility for the lack of it.

E.C. Riegel

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