Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes

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

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

The majority is always sane.

Reason will conclude that where multitude is, there is the truth.

A minority may be right. The majority is always wrong.

The majority voice should be controlling ... after a full, fair, and candid expression.

What fundamental biological principle gives the majority the right to think they are preserved from error?

The opinion of the majority is not lightly to be rejected; but neither is it to be carelessly echoed.

I have been defeated for election often enough to know that the majority can be wrong.

Since the mass of mankind are too ignorant or too indolent to think seriously, if majorities are right it is by accident.

Wherever the sentiment of the majority is still genuine and intense, it is found to have abated little of its claim to be obeyed.

Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

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

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

I disagree with what the majority of the American people want.

Was there ever a time when the majority was right?

It has never mattered to me that thirty million people might think I'm wrong. The number of people who thought Hitler was right did not make him right... Why do you necessarily have to be wrong just because a few million people think you are?

Popularity and democracy aren't a judge, they're just stats.

In democratic republics such as ours, citizens rely on public criticism of ideas and people to determine national policy.

Passionate dissent from the will of the multitude should be respected, not derided.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

What you need to do is protect the structures and dynamics that are helping the people choose. The only thing that we can do is to respect the will of the people when it comes to majority processes. It is not for us to impose a model, it is not for us to impose answers to some critical questions.

We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority some of the biggest things in our own history have been accomplished, and the man who looks on the Stars and Stripes and doesn't hold a right to say nay to his neighbor, even if the neighbor is of the larger party, has forgotten the history of his country.