“To avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, an alert citizenry today should take the trouble to learn how easy it can be for a powerful minority to manipulate information to win the support-or the indifference-of the majority towards an action.” ShouldTodayActionPastWinningEasyPowerfulMistakeSupportTroubleInformationMajorityIndifferenceMinoritiesManipulateCitizenry Book:Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion Source: Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion
“When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.” BigsPoliticalPoliticsTroubleMajority Author:Sam Rayburn
“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
“Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not. . . . The bottomline is that good kids don't suddenly go bad in adolescence.” KidsTroubleTenMajorityNineAdolescence Author:Laurence Steinberg
“Many respected economists and statesmen believe our national debt is neither unwieldy nor a dangerous burden on the country. The trouble is that a vast majority of the American people think otherwise.... It violates basic American ideas of thrift and money management. These strong public feelings cannot be ignored forever.” PeopleThinkingBelieveIdeasCountryFeelingsStrongForeverTroubleDangerousManagementMajorityBurdenDebtIgnoredEconomistStatesmenThriftMoney ManagementNational Debt Author:Mo Udall
“The vast majority of our troubles and heartaches would simply vanish from view if only we could remember - before we act - that we are made victims mostly by our own tendencies.” IfsMadeRememberViewsTroubleVictimMajorityTendenciesHeartache Author:Guy Finley
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for certain that just ain't true." Thinking that you know the future.” ThinkingKnowsCertainSidesTroubleMajorityReformFinding Yourself Author:Mark Twain