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“Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will”
Winston Churchill
“What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs”
Henry Miller
“Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.”
David Ogilvy
“Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass”
Emma Goldman
“What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike”
Alfred North Whitehead
“There must be no majority decisions, but only responsible persons, and the word 'council' must be restored to its original meaning. Surely every man will have advisers by his side, but the decision will be made by one man.”
Adolf Hitler
“The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.”
Alfred A. Montapert
“What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.”
John Stuart Mill
“When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.”
Eugene Debs
“If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution”
Abraham Lincoln
