How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skeleton of our understanding, ... and actually they are the majority. ... We have here a problem that is not easy of solution, but yet must engage the attention of all who wish to devote themselves to education.

~ Henri Poincaré

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If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense of a minority, is it moral action?

~ Garth Nix

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Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong.

~ Amit Kalantri

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In each generation, there is this certain wisdom of the ages that gets reburied in the fleeting drivels of modernity; then, like a diamond in the rough, it is yet again unearthed by a very small minority who not only restores it, but also polishes it and presents it as something new, something highly valuable and refreshing as understood by the current.

~ Criss Jami

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An ethnic minority can live in peace with an ethnic majority as long as the majority does not use its preponderance to turn the institutions of the state into an instrument of ethnic favoritism or ethnic justice.

~ Michael Ignatieff

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The voice of the majority is no proof of justice

~ Friedrich Schiller

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The majority of the common people do not realize how corrupt the legal system has become until that blatant corruption shows up at their own homes.

~ Steven Magee

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I couldn't find my cup of tea.So probably, I've been simply taking a sip from everyone else's cup. May be it shouldn't matter as long as there is tea to drink. Or should it?

~ Sanhita Baruah

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The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority.

~ Philip K. Dick

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If a vast majority of the population identify and embrace the nation’s value system, then that nation is automatically great. Because they will live out these values in their daily life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

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In a democracy, we should be reluctant to take any action that amounts to an attempt to coerce the majority, for such attempts imply the rejection of majority rule, to which there is no acceptable alternative. There may, of course, be cases where the majority decision is so appalling that coercion is justified, whatever the risk. The obligation to obey a genuine majority decision is not absolute. We show our respect for the principle, not by blind obedience to the majority, but by regarding ourselves as justified in disobeying only in extreme circumstances.

~ Peter Singer

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Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)

~ Cornel West

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A democracy can only be produced if a majority movement is built. The guerilla strategy depends on a collapse of will in the ruling class to produce the social crisis out of which revolution occurs, whether the majority favors it or not.

~ Anarchist Communist Collective

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If we reject, as we must, the doctrine that the majority is always right, to submit moral issues to the vote is to gamble that what we believe to be right will come out of the ballot with more votes behind it than what we believe to be wrong; and that is a gamble we will often lose.

~ Peter Singer

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Seniority has nothing to do with intellectuality, your individuality wins the majority or minority, simply because you maintained the status quo of your peculiarity.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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Although we may face untold numbers that by their sheer mass appear to render us as little more than a speck in the face of them, a single person standing with God amidst any mass will always be an indomitable majority.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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Most people spend less time outside than prisoners.

~ J.r. Rim

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The problem with mad people is not that they are mad, but that they are suffering from a particular brand of madness that the majority are not.

~ Merlyn Gabriel Miller

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Majority is not always right. The fact that many people are in support of a wrong thing does not make the thing right. After all, the number of persons who with poor reasoning capacity is higher than those with better reasoning capacity.I don't read or care about majority's stance on a particular issue before expressing mine. I look at issues critically before expressing mine, not minding the reaction of majority.There are more foolish people than there are wise people. People who think deeply and critically are fewer compared to those with poor thinkingI can handle majority but can't handle my conscience

~ Omosohwofa Casey

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Majority is not always right. The fact that many people are in support of a wrong thing does not make the thing right. After all, the number of persons with poor reasoning capacity is higher than those with better reasoning capacity.I don't read or care about majority's stance on a particular issue before expressing mine. I look at issues critically before expressing mine, not minding the reaction of majority.There are more foolish people than there are wise people. People who think deeply and critically are fewer compared to those with poor thinkingI can handle majority but can't handle my conscience

~ Omosohwofa Casey

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A majority opinion does not represent the ultimate decision because such a view is not unanimous and lacks general will.

~ Duop Chak Wuol

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I'm convinced normal people miss the majority of God's blessings because they're too busy to notice them.

~ Craig Groeschel

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The truth does not need a number of supporters for authenticity. One person among the lot can be the only truthful out of the ten; 11 people out of 12 may be on the truthful side. However, the truth is the truth irrespective of how many people like to embrace it!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority...

~ Thomas Stockman

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South Africa is the only country where an overwhelming majority in complete political control is apparently so threatened by a tiny minority that they need racist affirmative action policies to protect the majority by legislatively excluding the minority totally from the job market.

~ Christina Engela

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One thing I have that the majority of other designers don't is humor. That's distinctly my approach, and it was distinctly Franco Moschino's, too.

~ Jeremy Scott

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Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

~ Jefferson Davis

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In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

~ James F. Cooper

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One and God make a majority.

~ Frederick Douglass

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But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.

~ Peter T. King

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One man with courage is a majority.

~ Thomas Jefferson

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As for our majority... one is enough.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

~ John Stuart Mill

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One with the law is a majority.

~ Calvin Coolidge

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