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“The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.”
A. A. Milne
“Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.”
Mark Twain
“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds”
Samuel Adams
“Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.”
Anthony Robbins
“In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority”
Henrik Ibsen
“One man with courage makes a majority.”
Andrew Jackson
“What the vast majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you do for your children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.”
Ann Landers
“There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action”
Bertrand Russell
