| "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 |
| "The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." »Harper Lee |
| "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 |
| "Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant." »John Simon |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "One man with courage is a majority." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "In economics, the majority is always wrong." »John Kenneth Galbraith |
| "The truth is not always the same as the majority decision." »Pope John Paul II |
| "It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so." »Friedrich von Schiller |
| "All politics are based on the indifference of the majority." »James Barrett Scotty Reston |
| "One man with courage makes a majority." »Andrew Old Hickory Jackson |
| "Truth is not determined by majority vote." »Doug Gwyn |
| "Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." »Mark Twain |
| "In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone." »John Kenneth Galbraith |
| "When the silent majority opens its mouth it is usually to yawn." »Gerd de Ley |
| "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 |
| "The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing." »William J. Broad |
| "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." »Mark Twain |
| "The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin." »Honore' de Balzac |
| "Few men desire liberty The majority are satisfied with a just master." »Sallust |
| "It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that." »G. H. Hardy |
| "I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity." »Charles Dudley Warner |
| "To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him." »Johann von Goethe |
| "There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action." »Bertrand Russell |
| "Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God." »Charles Haddon Spurgeon |
| "The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail." »Napoleon Hill |
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