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Truth is never determined by majority opinion, but by divine revelation. -- Steve Lawson
Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth. -- Vaclav Havel
There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion. -- George Orwell
I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media. -- Joey Skaggs
Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status quo, whoever would be a Christian must be a nonconformist. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Some of our problems can no more be solved correctly by majority opinion than can a problem in arithmetic and there are few problems that cannot be solved according to what is just and right without resort to popular opinion. -- Henry Latham Doherty
It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress... it is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original and radical innovations, such as automobiles or airplanes or transatlantic cables or Protestantism or the theory that the earth is round and not flat. -- Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
For those of us who originally disagreed with ObamaCare and now disagree with the majority opinion of the SCOTUS, the challenge remains the same as it would have been had the Court ruled otherwise. We need to elect Mitt Romney and House and Senate majorities that will repeal ObamaCare and replace it with free-market, pro-liberty solutions. -- Bob Beauprez
In the final scene of Power, the Supreme Court justices appear as a striking abstraction: Nine scowling masks line up in a row on top of a giant podium. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes speaks the majority opinion: 'Water power, the right to convert it into electric energy, and the electric energy thus produced constitute property belonging to the United States. -- Susan Quinn
We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority. -- King Hussein I
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion. -- John Acton
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mill's supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker. -- Millicent Fawcett
According to recent opinion polls, a large majority of Iraqis believe that the U.S. military has no intention to leave Iraq, and that it would stay even is asked by the Iraqi government to leave. -- John Conyers
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong. -- James Madison
In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be. -- Viggo Mortensen
I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don't reflect the balance of political opinion in the country - can corrupt absolutely. -- Charles Kennedy
While it's very hard to know exactly how to measure public opinion there, because there's no really good polling, the fact of the matter is that in all the polls I've seen the vast majority of the Iraqis prefer to be free and are pleased that the coalition freed them. -- Paul Bremer
I'm not of the opinion that all software will be open source software. There is certain software that fits a niche that is only useful to a particular company or person: for example, the software immediately behind a web site's user interface. But the vast majority of software is actually pretty generic. -- Brian Behlendorf
Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be. -- Viggo Mortensen
The opinion of the majority is not lightly to be rejected; but neither is it to be carelessly echoed. -- George Henry Lewes
And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority. -- Leo Tolstoy
The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion. -- Soren Kierkegaard
The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others. -- Napoleon Hill
The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able. -- Blaise Pascal
Based on current surveys of public opinion in the United States, it turns out that the majority of Americans think I've done a pretty good job. -- Barack Obama
Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of the electorate in western democracies. -- Moses Finley

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