“There is no maxim in my opinion which is more liable to be misapplied, and which therefore needs elucidation than the current one that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong… . In fact…

“It’s a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.” David Harris, (1946-) American journalist, author. Source: documentary ‘Carry It On’ (1970). Source Reference David Harris Quote

“The persecuting spirit has its origin morally in the disposition of man to domineer over his fellow creatures; intellectually, in the assumption that one’s own opinions are infallibly correct.” John Fiske, (1842-1901) American philosopher, historian. Source Reference John Fiske Quote

“Don’t forget that pure democracy is a form of collectivism – it readily sacrifices individual rights to majority wishes. Since it involves no constitutional bill of rights, or at least, no working and effective one, the majority-of-the-moment can and does…

“True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success; the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.” Felix Emmanuel Schelling,…

“Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.” Baruch Spinoza, (1632-1677) Dutch philosopher of Sephardi Portuguese origin. Source: cited in Atlantic Monthly, January 1955. Source Reference Baruch Spinoza Quote