What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.
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Criss Jami
When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.
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Joel Salatin
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 Walter Lippmann
What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation.
The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do.
His supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show where the dangers are.
