Majority Quotes

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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal. — James F. Cooper
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. — James F. Cooper
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. — Lord Acton
In the long run the ideas of the majority, however detrimental they may be, will carry on. The future of mankind depends on the ability… — Ludwig von Mises
Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power. — Ludwig von Mises
The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the… — Thomas Jefferson
We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support… — Walter Lippmann
A man with God is always in the majority. — John Knox
The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of… — Heraclitus
...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism. — Mark Twain
If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority. — Barbara Jordan
Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he has… — Robert Graves
The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority. — Walter Lippmann
You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as… — Bertrand Russell
The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to… — Sigmund Freud
The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are afraid of losing… — Bertrand Russell
Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions. — Mark Twain
Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side. — Oprah Winfrey
For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth. — Vaclav Havel

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