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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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