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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 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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"Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life." »George Bernard Shaw
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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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"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation." »George Santayana
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"A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective." »Sun-tzu
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"Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation." »Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist 22
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"Make no mistake about it: operation Desert Storm truly was a victory of good over evil, of freedom over tyranny, of peace over war." »Dan Quayle, remarks at Arlington National Cemetery
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"In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions Commodity, Firmness and Delight." »Henry Watton
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"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows--it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated." »Robert Collier
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"Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief." »Schopenhauer
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"One man with courage is a majority." »Thomas Jefferson
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"One man with courage makes a majority." »Andrew Old Hickory Jackson
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"The truth is not always the same as the majority decision." »Pope John Paul II
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"In economics, the majority is always wrong." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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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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"All politics are based on the indifference of the majority." »James Barrett Scotty Reston
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"The deadliest contagion is majority opinion." »Author Unknown
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"Truth is not determined by majority vote." »Doug Gwyn
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"In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"When the silent majority opens its mouth it is usually to yawn." »Gerd de Ley
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"I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the braver every in a majority" »Henry David Thoreau
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"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." »Mark Twain
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"Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master." »Sallust
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"Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth." »Válcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune
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"Few men desire liberty The majority are satisfied with a just master." »Sallust
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