Destiny Quote by Emma Goldman

“What the majority thinks does not make it a truth by default, and what the majority wishes was true won't be just because they…

— Robin Sacredfire

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority…

— Giordano Bruno

The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so…

— Soren Kierkegaard

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority

— Henrik Ibsen

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

— Samuel Adams

It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress... it is always from a…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of nature than…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, it afterward persists by itself, needing…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Truth always rests with the minority … because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of…

— Søren Kierkegaard

Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise…

— Voltaire

Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne for a…

— Thomas Jefferson

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

— Voltaire