Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
It is impossible to please all the world
Jean de La Fontaine, 1621-1695, French Fabulist, Fables, 1668, fable 1
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Whithead’s view which seems intuitively right to most citizens, tends to be the one that the majority espouses but the minority opposes. At the time, the Republicans controlled the White House and there were a number of polarizing issues, where the Republicans could not obtain consensus and then decided. However, then the Democrats gained control of the White House and Congress the next year, it was the Democrats who claimed that they had to decide. The Republicans, now in the majority, argued that significant changes in America should not be made by narrow majorities and major issues should be tabled if there was no substantial majority. That was the position that the Democrats had espoused when they were in the minority.
Husayn Ali Nuri. Some societies require consensus for action. Others act by majority vote. The Bahai founder set forth this process which attempts to get consensus, but if that fails, the majority then prevails.
Jean de La Fontaine was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French regional languages.
