Quotes on Majority And Minority

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.

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

It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.