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is a disgusting thing consisting of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.

Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consist of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

is always wrong... the minority is rarely right.

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

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools' Henrik Ibsen

 it takes fifty years for it to be right.

Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified' Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog' It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right. Henrik Ibsen

1s 2ruths are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie.

What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports' They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen. Henrik Ibsen

is a thing which, when it is insane, then the sane must go to asylum.

When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum. Mark Twain

is never where you want to be. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. 'It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for certain that just ain't true.' Thinking that you know the future. Mark Twain

is that upon whose indifference all politics are based.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

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