في الديمقراطية، تستطيع أغلبية المواطنين أن تمارس أشدّ أنواع الظلم قسوةً على الأقلية.

“In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.”Edmund Burke — Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris (1790)