Misattributed <br class="br">Source: The first citation appears in a translation of Leo Tolstoy's Bethink Yourselves! http://www.nonresistance.org/docs_htm/Tolstoy/~Bethink_Yourselves/BY_chapter08.html by NONRESISTANCE.ORG. The claim made that it is from Marcus Aurelius. Nothing closely resembling it appears in Meditations, nor does it appear in a 1904 translation of Bethink Yourselves http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/bethink-yourselves/8/. The 1904 translation may be abridged, whereas the NONRESISTANCE.ORG translation claims to be unabridged.
“Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Alternate (also Twain's): Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Source: Mark Twain's Notebook (1935), p. 393
“I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.”
Rabih Alameddine (1959) Lebanese-American painter and writer.
Source: I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
“Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.”
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
"What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?" in The Beatles Anthology (2000)
Context: Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. … I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
Diary of an Unknown (1988), On Invisibility
“When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“In God's world there are no majorities, no minorities; one, on God's side, is a majority.”
Wendell Phillips (1811–1884) American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator and lawyer
1850s, Lecture at Brooklyn (1859)
