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“The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.”
Pope John Paul II
“Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.”
Thomas Jefferson
“I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.”
Henry Youngman
“The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs”
George Bernard Shaw
“The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.”
“For there is one thing we must never forget… the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.”
Adolf Hitler
“California has become the first American state where there is no majority race, and we're doing just fine. If you look around the room, you can see a microcosm of what we can do in the world. . . . You should be hopeful on balance about the future. But it's like any future since the beginning of time -- you're going to have to make it.”
Bill Clinton
“Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority”
Edmund Burke
“One, on God's side, is a majority”
Wendell Phillips
