“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.”
Source: Civil Disobedience (1849)
“The major abstraction is the idea of man
And major man is its exponent, abler
In the abstract than in his singular,
More fecund as principle than particle”
Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
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