majorities

Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority.

Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.

A man with God is always in the majority.

We as a people seem to be losing all sense of respect for ourselves and our fellow men, with the result that in a thoroughly intolerant attitude we hesitate not a minute to secure an organized minority, or even a majority, to attempt by resolution or law to impose our will on a large body of people in matters where no moral wrong is involved and where liberty is curtailed.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.