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  • A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

    Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.11, Hayes Barton Press
  • Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

    Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.100, Penguin
  • In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.

    Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.233, Harvard University Press
  • When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

    Speech at trial, Cleveland, Ohio, 12 Sept. 1918 See Ibsen 16; Sydney Smith 14
  • A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

    Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.11, Hayes Barton Press
  • The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

    John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.103, Jazzybee Verlag
  • Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

    Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, Chartwell
  • Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.

    Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.100, Penguin
  • the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

    First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801
  • The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

    Life   Courage   Bullying  
  • It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

  • Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

    Country   Pride   Gay  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2360, Delphi Classics
  • Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.

    Henry Bool, Lysander Spooner, Edwin C. Walker (1972). “Individualist anarchist pamphlets”
  • Desperate courage makes One a majority.

  • Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable.

    First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801
  • In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

    Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.186
  • That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.

    John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 6: Defence of the Constitution IV, Discourses on Davila”, p.43, Jazzybee Verlag
  • What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

    Walter Lippmann (2003). “Men of Destiny (Ppr)”, p.56, Transaction Publishers
  • Democracy is for infidels. A real Muslim is not a democrat because he doesn't care about the opinions of majorities and minorities don't interest him. He is only interested in what Islam says.

    Real   Islam   Democracy  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

    First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801
  • 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.

    John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.103, Jazzybee Verlag
  • It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

    Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom: Great Event”, p.9, VM eBooks
  • Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.

    "The Diary of Soren Kierkegaard" by Soren Kierkegaard, pt. 5, sct. 3, no 128, 1850.
  • The minority yields to the majority!

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.

    "The Diary of Soren Kierkegaard" by Soren Kierkegaard, pt. 5, sct. 3, no 128, 1850.
  • The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

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