When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.
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Criss Jami
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
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Leo Tolstoy
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.
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Mahatma Gandhi
I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.
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Criss Jami
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).
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Mark Twain
More Quotes By James F. Cooper
The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.
It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling...
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
