[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it's also designed to protect the people against bureaucracy, against the government.
Interpretation
The Bill of Rights safeguards individual freedoms from both majority rule and government overreach.
This quote emphasizes the dual role of the Bill of Rights: it is not only a shield for individuals and minority groups from the potential oppression of the majority but also serves as a protection against excessive government authority. It underlines the importance of safeguarding personal liberties in a democratic society, ensuring that both individual rights and the rule of law are upheld.
In practice
During a constitutional law lecture discussing the importance of civil liberties.
Remember that your perception of the world is a reflection of your state of consciousness. You are not separate from it, and there is no objective world out there. Every moment, _x000D_ your consciousness creates the world that you inhabit.
Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.
In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.
The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic.
Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
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