A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Votin…

Ayn Rand
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A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Voting is merely a proper political device--within a strictly, constitutionall y delimited sphere of action--for choosing the practical means of implementing a society’s basic principles. But those principles are not determined by vote. ✨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.522, Penguin
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