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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
Otto von Bismarck

As for our majority... one is enough.
Benjamin Disraeli

A majority is always better than the best repartee.
Benjamin Disraeli

In economics, the majority is always wrong.
John Kenneth Galbraith

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
John Kenneth Galbraith

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
John Kenneth Galbraith

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The minority yields to the majority!
Deng Xiaoping

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
Will Durant

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Thomas Carlyle

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
Eugene V. Debs

The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
Lord Acton

I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?
Billie Joe Armstrong

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
Jesse Jackson

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph W. Sockman

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
Henrik Ibsen

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.
Henrik Ibsen

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
Henrik Ibsen

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
Charlotte Bronte

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