Mmschoe's List: Favorite Quotes, Blurbs and Quips

"Quotes tagged as "majority" (showing 1-17 of 17)

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
― Mark Twain
tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom 25,594 people liked it like

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
tags: conscience, majority, right-and-wrong, truth, wrong 266 people liked it like

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”
― Thomas Jefferson
tags: democracy, justice, majority, minority, perspective, politics, tyranny 133 people liked it like

“I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.”
― Henrik Ibsen
tags: majority, society 123 people liked it like

“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
tags: conscience, courage, majority, minority, truth 64 people liked it like

“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.”
― Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals
tags: belief, bertrand, evidence, foolish, majority, opinion, russell 61 people liked it like

“Don’t be jealous if I spend 50% of my time with you, and 50% of my time with others, because you get 100% of 50%, while all the others have to share that other 50%.” This is the speech I’ve prepared to tell my wife in the future, when I’m spending a majority minus one percent of my time with my clones. 
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― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title
tags: clones, jealous, jealousy, majority, marriage, share, sharing, speech, time, wife 41 people liked it like

“Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.”
― Criss Jami
tags: companionship, different, extroversion, fear, foreign, friendships, introversion, lone-wolf, loneliness, majority, minority, personality, psychology, relationships, solitary, solitude 17 people liked it like

“In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
tags: conscience, ethics, majority 16 people liked it like

“I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period.”
― Michael Crichton
tags: 9-11, bisphenol-a, bpa, consensus, darwinism, evolution, excitotoxins, fluoride, global-warming, id, intelligent-design, macro-evolution, macroevolution, majority, majority-view, man-made-global-warming, manmade-global-warming, minority, minority-view, monosodium-glutamate, msg, science, scientific-discovery, scientific-inquiry, scientific-method, scientific-process, scientific-research, scientific-revolution, scientific-theory, september-11-attacks 12 people liked it like

“Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning. ”
― George Lincoln Rockwell
tags: average-joe, boobus-americanus, majority, revolution, revolutionary, sheeple, sports 12 people liked it like

“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, Race Matters
tags: democracy, majority, minority 8 people liked it like

“When most of the greatest individuals in history were misunderstood and you've spent so much of your own adult life misunderstood, you can't help but believe that the majority of people know very little worth knowing.”
― Criss Jami
tags: geniuses, greatness, history, history-of-mankind, ignorance, knowing, majority, majority-view, mankind, misunderstanding, misunderstood, people 7 people liked it like

“I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way.”
― Michael Crichton
tags: 9-11, bisphenol-a, bpa, consensus, darwinism, evolution, excitotoxins, fluoride, global-warming, id, intelligent-design, macro-evolution, macroevolution, majority, majority-view, man-made-global-warming, manmade-global-warming, minority, minority-view, monosodium-glutamate, msg, science, scientific-discovery, scientific-inquiry, scientific-method, scientific-process, scientific-research, scientific-revolution, scientific-theory, september-11-attacks 6 people liked it like

“What an ironic tragedy that an affluent, “Christian” minority in the world continues to hoard its wealth while hundreds of millions of people hover on the edge of starvation!”
― Ronald J. Sider, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity
tags: affluence, christianity, hunger, irony, majority, minority, poverty, starvation, tragedy, wealth 3 people liked it like

“When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.”
― Criss Jami
tags: abnormal, appearance, artist, asleep, being-different, brain, conscious, crazy, creativity, derangement, different, funny, funny-but-true, genius, humanity, humor, individual, individuality, insane, insanity, intelligence, majority, mental-derangement, mentality, mind, minority, misunderstood, normal, odd, oddity, outcast, people, popular, popularity, sane, sanity, sleep, society, strange, unconscious, unpopular, unpopularity, weird, wisdom, world 3 people liked it like

“...a minority is only thought of as a minority if it constitutes some kind of threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat is ever quite imaginary...Just ask yourselves: what would this particular minority do if it suddenly became the majority, overnight?
'All right - now along come the liberals - including everybody in the room, I trust - and they say, 'minorities are just people, like us '. Sure, minorities are people, just like us'. Sure, minorities are people; people , not angels. Sure, they're like us - but not exactly like us; that's the all-too-familiar state of liberal hysteria, in which you begin to kid yourself you honestly cannot see a difference between a Negro and a Swede -'
(Why, oh why daren't George say 'between Estelle Oxford and Buddy Sorensen'? Maybe, if he did dare, there would be a great atomic blast of laughter, and everybody would embrace, and the kingdom of heaven would begin, right here in the classroom 278. But then, again, maybe it wouldn't.)
'So,let's face it, minorities are people who probably look and act and think differently from us, and have faults we don't have. We may dislike the way they look and act, and we may hate their faults. And it's better if we admit to disliking and hating them, than if we try to smear out feelings over with pseudo-liberal sentimentality. If we're frank about our feelings, we have a safety-valve; and if we have a safety-valve, we're actually less likely to start persecuting...” "