Majority Quotes

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

“When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.”
― Henrik Ibsen

“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 widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”
― Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals

“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas

“I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.”
― Michael Crichton

“In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond, The. Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific.

“Some cry out against the majority's despotism that knocks them off their feet and hacks into their fundamental values. Since the unbearable intrusion on their lifestyle's quality frightens them, they are obsessed with losing their integrity through the backlash of an overpowering "democratorship." Spearheading a reconciliation between freethinking and mediation is of supreme importance because mere resentment can be an evil counselor. ("What after bowling alone?" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)”
― Cornel West, Race Matters

“Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning. ”
― George Lincoln Rockwell

“Most people believe most of the things they believe only because they believe that most people believe them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.”
― Michael Crichton

“Never loan your heart to hatred; it pays you back with self-destruction. Majority of people living are not aware that anger is an acid that destroys its own container.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Minority Report

“He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; he who knows he is confused is not in the worst confusion. The man in the worst confusion will end his life without ever getting straightened out; the biggest fool will end his life without ever seeing the light. If three men are traveling along and one is confused, they will still get where they are going - because confusion is in the minority. But if two of them are confused, then they can walk until they are exhausted and never get anywhere - because confusion is in the majority.”
― Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

“...a minority is only thought of as a minority if it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat is ever quite imaginary...Just ask yourselves: what would this particular minority do if it suddenly became the majority, overnight?
'All right - now along come the liberals - including everybody in the room, I trust - and they say, 'minorities are just people, like us '. Sure, minorities are people, just like us'. Sure, minorities are people; people , not angels. Sure, they're like us - but not exactly like us; that's the all-too-familiar state of liberal hysteria, in which you begin to kid yourself you honestly cannot see a difference between a Negro and a Swede -'
(Why, oh why daren't George say 'between Estelle Oxford and Buddy Sorensen'? Maybe, if he did dare, there would be a great atomic blast of laughter, and everybody would embrace, and the kingdom of heaven would begin, right here in the classroom 278. But then, again, maybe it wouldn't.)
'So,let's face it, minorities are people who probably look and act and think differently from us, and have faults we don't have. We may dislike the way they look and act, and we may hate their faults. And it's better if we admit to disliking and hating them, than if we try to smear out feelings over with pseudo-liberal sentimentality. If we're frank about our feelings, we have a safety-valve; and if we have a safety-valve, we're actually less likely to start persecuting...”
― Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man

“There is a view of life which conceives that where the crowd is, there is also truth. There is another view of life which conceives that wherever there is a crowd, there is untruth.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“Majority is not always right. The fact that many people are in support of a wrong thing does not make the thing right. After all, the number of persons who with poor reasoning capacity is higher than those with better reasoning capacity.

I don't read or care about majority's stance on a particular issue before expressing mine. I look at issues critically before expressing mine, not minding the reaction of majority.

There are more foolish people than there are wise people. People who think deeply and critically are fewer compared to those with poor thinking

I can handle majority but can't handle my conscience”
― OMOSOHWOFA CASEY

“Majority is not always right. The fact that many people are in support of a wrong thing does not make the thing right. After all, the number of persons with poor reasoning capacity is higher than those with better reasoning capacity.

I don't read or care about majority's stance on a particular issue before expressing mine. I look at issues critically before expressing mine, not minding the reaction of majority.

There are more foolish people than there are wise people. People who think deeply and critically are fewer compared to those with poor thinking

I can handle majority but can't handle my conscience”
― OMOSOHWOFA CASEY

“I will not jump with common spirits.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“Odio questa sensazione di credere di fare ciò ch'è giusto, quando no sono affatto sicuro di farlo. Chi siamo noi, del resto? la maggioranza? è questa la risposta? la maggioranza è sempre sacra, non è vero? Sempre, sempre; non sbaglia mai, nemmeno per una minuscola frazione d'un minuscolo insignificante momentino? mai una volta nemmeno in dieci milioni di anni? Ma in fin dei conti, pensava il capitano, che cos'è questa maggioranza e da chi è composta? e che cosa pensa, e come fa a fare quello che fa, non cambierà mai? e io, soprattutto, come ho fatto a trovarmici in mezzo, a questa marcia maggioranza? Non mi trovo bene, io. Si tratta forse di claustrofobia, di paura della folla, o semplicemente di buon senso? Può un uomo solo avere ragione, mentre tutto il resto del mondo è convinto di avere ragione lui?”
― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

“The difference between the child, the teenager, the adult and the old person is very easily demonstrable. When a child doesn't understand something, he asks questions, and if you can explain things well, the child will understand. The teenager can only understand something if he sees it in a book, so he distrusts any explanation. The adult is not interested in understanding anymore but merely accepting, and his concept of truth is ruled by the majority. The old person doesn't trust the majority because he was betrayed too many times, and instead gets fixated on his own thoughts until he dies. One then experiences the death of the mind when he becomes a teenager and the death of the heart when he becomes an adult, and as an old person he finally experiences death to the meaning of life, and when there is nothing more to live for, life itself ends. This is why you must be like a little child if you wish to understand the kingdoms of God. The happiness of the child comes from discovering new things, learning new things, doing new things, and falling in love with everything.”
― Dan Desmarques

“The vast majority of police officers are above the law.”
― Steven Magee

“What happens when the masses file complaints about police officers? The vast majority of people get a short letter back stating the police officers did nothing wrong.”
― Steven Magee

“Majority may be authority but only for the damn majority.”
― Raheel Farooq, Why I Am a Muslim: And a Christian and a Jew

“What we seek is a higher authority for the subordination of a minority to the majority, further than that arising from a shared mental pathology and the inability to resist physical force.”
― Seth Daniel Parker, The Greater Good: A Novel of Divided America

“The majority is the most effective and powerful law on the planet, whether in a constructive way or in a destructive way.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Society cannot exist if the majority is not ready to hinder, by the application or threat of violent action, minorities from destroying the social order.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics