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"The opinion of the majority or the minority is of no importance! The important thing is the opinion of the Truth, of the Reason, of the Logic, of the High Intelligence!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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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 deadliest contagion is majority opinion." »Author Unknown
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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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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." »Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." »Bertrand Russell
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"In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them." »Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
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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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"The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion." »Anonymous
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"Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope the same, without such opinion, despair." »Thomas Hobbes
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"Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair." »Thomas Hobbes
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"A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion." »Author Unknown
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"He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave." »Klopstock
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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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"I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled toward absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world." »Glen Cook, Shadow Games
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"I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself." »Ruben Studdard
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"Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor." »Hugh Elliott
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"Government, is the last analysis, is organized opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government." »MacKenzie King
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"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." »Bertrand Russell
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"One man with courage is a majority." »Thomas Jefferson
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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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"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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"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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"All politics are based on the indifference of the majority." »James Barrett Scotty Reston
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"Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master." »Sallust
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