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Quotations about majority

Mahatma GandhiIn matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

 - Mahatma Gandhi

Tags:   conscience  law  majority  

Blaise PascalThe highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

 - Blaise Pascal

Tags:   majority  mediocrity  norms  

Democracy which began by liberating man politically has developed a dangerous tendency to enslave him through the tyranny of majorities and the deadly power of their opinion.

 - Ludwig Lewisohn

Tags:   democracy  majority  minority  tyranny