Famous quotes containing the words accepted, majority and/or verdicts:
“The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
“Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.”
—Leonard Cohen (b. 1934)