Top 20 Quotes About The Majority Being Wrong
#1. I swore I was going to exclusively collect assets and not liabilities for the rest of my life. I swore never to take gambles I couldn't back up, or that I couldn't afford to lose. And, I've stuck with that ever since.
Tim Blixseth
#2. Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.
George Saintsbury
#3. I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.
Arabella Weir
#4. I began a poem in lines of one syllable. It's rather difficult, but the merit of all things lies in their difficulty. The subject matter is gallant. I'll read you the first canto; it's four hundred verses long and takes one minute.
Alexandre Dumas
#5. The only party which is going to increase taxes after the election is the Labor Party.
Tony Abbott
#6. Socrates, one of the greatest philosophers of all time, took his whole life to get to the point where he said, As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
Miguel Ruiz
#7. 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
#8. Clothes by a man who doesn't know women, never had one, and dreams of being one!
Coco Chanel
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate.
Bela Kun
#14. 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
#15. I would like to ban people being allowed to text while in a crosswalk.
Rich Sommer
#16. 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
#17. The right to make revolution is unconditional, for it alone establishes right.
Stathis Kouvelakis
#18. I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.
Steve Jobs
#19. Why do people take notice of first snowfalls but not the last days of snow? Remember the last too.
Yoseob
#20. 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
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