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“The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught.”

Knows Men Needs Kind Ideas Fields Taught Theory Crisis Majority Alternatives Eras Guidance Dependent Dominant Unfamiliar Times Of Crisis

Book:Ominous Parallels

Source: Ominous Parallels

“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.”

May Art Earth Form Opinion Modern Theory Innovation Originals Majority Rounds Radical Flats Airplane Hostile Cables Automobile Modernism Modern Art Protestantism Majority Opinion

Author:Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

“Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of the nation.”

People Nations Theory Republican Majority Seven Rulers Womens Rights

Book:Address in favor of Universal Suffrage, for the Election of Delegates to the Constitutional Convention, etc

Source: Address in favor of Universal Suffrage, for the Election of Delegates to the Constitutional Convention, etc

“To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims. This can only happen if they are treated as equal citizens, not just in theory, and have access to decent education and jobs.”

Ifs Happens Jobs Education Theory Citizens Equal Gains Majority Access Treated Revolutionary Decent Killers Ideologues

Author:Ian Buruma

“Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence prevails, passive obedience is demanded by the workers, who are ruled by overseers, not of their own election, but appointed from above. In theory they may be the subjects of a democratic state; but in practice they spend the whole of their working lives as the subjects of a petty tyrant.”

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization