They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Most people go through life assuming that they’re right … and that people who don’t see things their way are wrong.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don’t think so.

The prevailing thought is usually the wrong thought.

There is a commonplace book argument,
Which glibly glides from every vulgar tongue
When any dare a new light to present:
'If you are right, then everybody's wrong.'
Suppose the converse of this precedent
So often urged, so loudly and so long:
'If you are wrong, then everybody's right.'
Was ever everybody yet so quite?

Everybody thinks their opinion is the right one. If they didn't, they would get a new one.

Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations, that they are individualists, that they have arrived at their opinions as the result of their own thinking — and that it just happens that their ideas are the same as those of the majority.

Remember that what’s right isn’t always popular, and what’s popular isn’t always right. 865

I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.

There are always individuals who pit their minds against the general modes of thought and who are arrogant enough to feel that they alone are right and that the many are wrong.