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John Kenneth Galbraith
: In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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John Kenneth Galbraith :
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There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.
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It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.
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Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.
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P J O Rourke :
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Majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But -- like other precious, sacred things, such as the home and the family -- it's not only worth dying for; it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stonewashed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And -- since women are a majority of the population -- we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.
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John C Calhoun :
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The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.
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Walter Lippmann :
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The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed. Except in the sacred tests of democracy and in the incantations of the orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force.
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Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as right in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as brute force.
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If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
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More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.
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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
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Washington is a place where people praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
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Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
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A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.
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Few people at the beginning of the ninteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
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Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.
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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
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