Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.

Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

Unless you are unique, your opinion goes out the window.

Better be wrong with the many than right with the few.

The nail that sticks out gets knocked down.

If a majority be united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure.

The majority never has right on its side.

“I would rather err with the majority than in my own way.” So thought Saint Augustine. I am of the reverse opinion.

Woe betide the man who refuses to conform.

How can we choose to selectively follow what we find comfortable and attack anybody who tries to break free from the norms that we choose to set?

Conformity is the ape of harmony.

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.

I come more and more to the conclusion that one must take the side of the minority which is always the more intelligent one.

Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?

If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.