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"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

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"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 Johan Ibsen

tags: majority, society

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"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 widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible"
— Bertrand Russell

tags: belief, bertrand, evidence, foolish, majority, opinion, russell

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""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, majority, tyranny

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"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
— Thomas Jefferson

tags: democracy, majority, tax, tyranny, welfare

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"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: americanus, average, boobus, joe, majority, revolution, revolutionary, sheeple, sports

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