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"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people." »Giordano Bruno
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"The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty." »Brooks Atkinson
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"It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason." »Lord Acton
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"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?" »Harry Shearer
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"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure" »Nicolas Boileau
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"absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power." »Eric Hoffer
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"The majority-rule society has produced nothing more than heart-ache and intolerance. Throughout this majority-rule period it has been the members of the minority who have made an impact. It only takes one person to kill a hundred. It only takes one dictator to oppress millions. For better or for worse, it is the daring few who have shaped this so-called majority-rule society." »Jonar Nader
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"Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant." »John Simon
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"Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant." »John Simon
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"We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians." »David Brinkley
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"Is there anyone that knows the absolute truth?" »Sorin Cerin
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"Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity." »Bruce Lee
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute." »Patrick Stewart
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"One man with courage is a majority." »Thomas Jefferson
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"My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made." »Robert Browning
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"The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature." »Cicero
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"Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists." »Thomas Huxley
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"But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute." »William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece Ver. 124
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"My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made." »Robert Browning
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"Who can say what love at the feet of the absolute truth means?" »Sorin Cerin
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"The absolute truth is one for an infinity of possible relative truths which lie." »Sorin Cerin
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"It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so." »Friedrich von Schiller
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"In economics, the majority is always wrong." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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"The truth is not always the same as the majority decision." »Pope John Paul II
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"One man with courage makes a majority." »Andrew Old Hickory Jackson
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"Truth is not determined by majority vote." »Doug Gwyn
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"All politics are based on the indifference of the majority." »James Barrett Scotty Reston
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"In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place." »Mahatma Gandhi
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