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Majority / Minority
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It is proof of a base and low mind for one
to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority
is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed
by a majority of the people.
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-Giordano Bruno
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Everything great and intelligent is in the
minority.
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-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Truth is not determined by majority
vote.
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-Doug Gwyn
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If all mankind were of one opinion, and only
one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified
in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be
justified in silencing mankind.
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-John Stuart Mill
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~Really, Crito, why
should we care so much about what 'most people' believe?
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-The character Socrates, in Plato's
Crito
44d
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