Godfrey Harold Hardy, 1877-1947
was an English mathematician
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862
was an US Transcendentalist author
But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.
( “Civil Disobedience”, 1849 )
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), 1835-1910
was an US humorist, novelist, short story author, and wit
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.