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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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"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 one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." »Harper Lee
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"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
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"Inventors, pioneers, radicals, visionaries; these have ventured from the lonely and costly camp of minority only to be obstructed by majority-rule concepts that tolerate inferiority, hinder progress, harbor injustice, and pose limits within the decaying status quo." »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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"There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule." »Samuel Butler
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"There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule." »George Osner
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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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"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others." »Edward Abbey
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"To keep the fire burning brightly, there's one easy rule keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart -- about a finger's breadth -- for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule." »Marnie Reed Crowell
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"Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions." »Holly Lisle
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"Let the cats rule the world; first thing they will do is to increase the number of mousetraps! Let the rats rule the world; first thing they will do is to increase the number of dogs!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"One man with courage is a majority." »Thomas Jefferson
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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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"It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so." »Friedrich von Schiller
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"The truth is not always the same as the majority decision." »Pope John Paul II
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"The deadliest contagion is majority opinion." »Author Unknown
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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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"Truth is not determined by majority vote." »Doug Gwyn
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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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"When the silent majority opens its mouth it is usually to yawn." »Gerd de Ley
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"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone." »John Kenneth Galbraith
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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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"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." »Mark Twain
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