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“Oh, God, the terrible tyranny of the majority.”
Ray Bradbury
,
Fahrenheit 451
“Every citizen, it is said, must have equality, and therefore in a democracy the poor have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.”
Aristotle
,
Politics
“In a great national crisis like ours unanimity of action among those seeking a common end is very desirable—almost indispensable. And yet no approach to such unanimity is attainable unless some deference shall be paid to the will of the...”
Abraham Lincoln
,
State of the Union Address
“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.”
Henry David Thoreau
,
Civil Disobedience
“It is no use to take an action to which the masses are opposed, for it will then be impossible to enforce.”
Nelson Mandela
,
Long Walk to Freedom
“Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?”
Mark Twain
,
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“For the moment the peril was nowhere and yet everywhere. The majority remained solid; but the leaders became stiff and exacting.”
Anatole France
,
Penguin Island
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