Quotes About Majority Being Wrong

#1. This was an outstanding family subject in our real life.

Rohinton Mistry

#2. I think what we are seeing is a vicious circle: by covering the controversies and the conflicting realities, it creates a much distorted perception of Islam and Muslims. When a minority is being taken as a majority, it creates a wrong image.

Tariq Ramadan

#3. We can't play God.
We can't do this to kids.
You're evil, I'm evil.
Everyone will die.
No matter what.
Let nature win.

James Dashner

#4. I had no idea what time I'd left, how I'd gotten home, who'd been up here, and how long he, she, or they had stayed. Another night, added to the hundreds that had gone before, shrouded in mystery. Really, when you thought about it, it was creepy. My own life was a secret to me.

Heather King

#5. Spain?" Jesse said and glanced about at the others, but they looked equally perplexed. "Spain?" "Yes, to Baldr's castle. Where did you think he lived? The North Pole?

Brom

#6. I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.

David Sedaris

#7. If someone's got good, clean skin, with not too much make-up on, and good, clean hair that's bouncy, and the nails are clean and not overly done, then you can put anything on her and she's going to look good.

Bruce Oldfield

#8. He was a wise man who invented beer.

Plato

#9. Freedom is a difficult burden to bear in an absurd world.

Eugene Webb

#10. It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority's falsehood as truth, could be fatal.

Thomas Szasz

#11. Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.

George Saintsbury

#12. If you decide to do something, don't shrink from being seen doing it, even if the majority of people disapprove. If you're wrong to do it, then you should shrink from doing it altogether; but if you're right, then why worry how people will judge you?

Epictetus

#13. Truth can win you many enemies, but it also rewards you with some die-hard friends

Alok Jagawat

#14. You and I read the same books and hear the same sermons and we come away with different messages. That has to be evidence of some serious problem, right?

Dave Eggers

#15. It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

Joseph Campbell

#16. Being democratic is not enough, a majority cannot turn what is wrong into right. In order to be considered truly free, countries must also have a deep love of liberty and an abiding respect for the rule of law.

Margaret Thatcher

#17. If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.

Laozi

#18. We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about it.

Noam Chomsky

#19. When young, one learns his craftsmanship, may become a young master, and it is youth that is most auspicious for developing certain skills.

Robert Schumann