“ A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority. ”
- Henry Jacobsen- Copy
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“ What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike. ”
- Alfred North Whitehead- Copy
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“ The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. ”
- Ralph W. Sockman- Copy
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“ A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. ”
- George Steiner- Copy
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“ The voice of the majority is no proof of justice. ”
- Johann Friedrich von Schiller- Copy
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“ The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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“ There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
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“ Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
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“ Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
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“ When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. ”
- Eugene V. Debs- Copy
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“ No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble. ”
- Norman Douglas- Copy
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“ It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues. ”
- Barry Gibb- Copy
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“ When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'. ”
- Sam Rayburn- Copy
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“ One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted. ”
- Thomas Brackett Reed- Copy
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“ The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority. ”
- James Fenimore Cooper- Copy
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“ Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all, tet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, giveing us manhood or womanhood fiber. ”
- Frank Crane- Copy
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“ Any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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