Majority Quotes

right now it is only you versus many people, you are going to lose

Hain't we got all the fools on our side? And hain't that enough majority in any town.

If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well ... [H]e has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, ... thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses ... Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant ... [its] own equivalent of oblivion.

No small part of the responsibility that the [judiciary] agrees to assume is to stand resolutely against majority will when constitutional principles require it.

to flee to the tyranny of the majority is a dreadful thing to do