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• By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Liberty, Majorities, Assurance, Opinion, Believe

• Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it’s a stinking way to create.

  Lillian Florence Hellman

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Elections, Majorities, Creativity

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Minorities, Majorities, Tolerance, Courage

• 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 foundations of society.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Majorities, Guilt

• Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion–and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion … while Truth again reverts to a new minority.

  Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Minorities, Majorities, Opinion

• The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

  A. A. Milne

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Minorities, Majorities

• 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

  Tags in Majorities, Minorities

• How a minority,
  Reaching majority,
  Seizing authority,
  Hates a minority!

  Leonard H. Robbins

  Topics in Age

  Tags in Authority, Minorities, Majorities

• Liberalism is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence itis the noblest cry that has ever resounded on this planet.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Tags in Minorities, Majorities, Liberals

• Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tags in Minorities, Majorities

• Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated.

  John Bright

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Elections, Minorities, Majorities

• In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

  Jesse Jackson

  Topics in Democracy, Politics

  Tags in Majorities, Minorities

• When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Minorities, Majorities, Radicals