Famous quotes containing the words majority, leader and/or position:
“The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! Thats one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the populationthe intelligent ones or the fools? I think we can agree its the fools, no matter where you go in this world, its the fools that form the overwhelming majority.”
—Henrik Ibsen (18281906)
“A bunch of horsemen curtly asked his name,
Their leader in a different dialect stated
A war was on for which he was to blame,
And he must help them.”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.”
—Georges Bataille (18971962)