“Courage is a terribly important value. It means you don’t run away when things are tough. It means you don’t turn away from a friend when he or she is in trouble. It means standing up against the majority opinion... There’s a lot of people who won’t wear it on their sleeve, or display it through some heroic act. But courage is having the strength to do what’s honorable and decent.” PeopleMeanImportantRunningValuesTurnsOpinionCourageTroubleToughStandingMajorityDecentHeroicRunning AwayDisplayHonorableSleevesHeroic ActsImportant ValuesMajority Opinion Author:George H. W. Bush
“The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal of democracy rests on the belief that the view which will direct government emerges from an independent and spontaneous process. It requires, therefore, the existence of a large sphere independent of majority control in which the opinions of the individuals are formed.” IfsShouldGovernmentIndividualBeliefProcessViewsExistenceOpinionDemocracyIdealsDirectIndependentMajorityMake SenseConceptionSpheresSpontaneousMajority Opinion Author: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.” MayArtEarthFormOpinionModernTheoryInnovationOriginalsMajorityRoundsRadicalFlatsAirplaneHostileCablesAutomobileModernismModern ArtProtestantismMajority Opinion Author:Alfred H. Barr, Jr.