About this quote

Some decisions can't be outsourced to a show of hands. When a matter touches right and wrong at its core, the number of people on one side changes nothing about where the truth sits, and going along with the crowd never lifts the choice off your own shoulders.

When to use it

• Refusing to sign off on a report everyone else approved because the figures were quietly falsified.
• A juror holding out against eleven others when the evidence simply doesn't support a conviction.
• Declining to join a group's freeze-out of a classmate, even when the whole class is in on it.