Majority Influence Quotes

I warn against the tyranny of the majority of the people with good table manners.

When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority. And as soon as this opinion is established, immediately by imperceptible degrees, but beyond power of frustration, the conduct of mankind begins to alter.

The political party having the majority ... [will] necessarily control all the committees ... because they ... must, as a party, protect themselves against the chance of the control of the business of the body going into the hands of their opponents.

Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.

The majority of people wherever found ought in all questions to govern the minority.

The majority is not society, is not everyone. Majority coercion over the minority is still coercion.

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

Here is a man with the greatest intellect in Europe, and yet he debases it by simply following majorities and the crowd.

As for our majority... one is enough.

A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

The majority never has right on its side.

That was like the moment of revelation for me that in fact we are not the lunatic fringe.

Absolutely the greatest challenges in dealing with discrimination are with the larger group who needs to consider how they think and act in everyday life. It remains the possibility of the majority to accept the call to change.

It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

World history is made by minorities when this minority of number embodies the majority of will and determination.

Majoritarian is when a majority takes a decision. It is not dictatorship. It is about which issue is major.

If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.

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

If the fools do not control the world, it isn't because they are not in the majority.

Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. This invisible pressure is more difficult to stand against than individual tyranny.

What one person does, several people usually consider.

Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.