Majority Quotes · Page 119

I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way,…

— Henry Miller

As the Republicans run to the crazy Tea Party right, they leave behind the huge mass of genuinely moderate and independent Americans…

— Jennifer Granholm

The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country.

— George W. Bush

Mad; adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the…

— Ambrose Bierce

You only have to look at the England squad to see the amount of players who get in the squad and start…

— Gareth Barry

To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the…

— Ibrahim Babangida

The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule…

— Henry Grady Weaver

What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the…

— Henry David Thoreau

The vast majority of the American people agree with me and many others. You don't simply repeal the Affordable Care Act without…

— John Lewis

The thing we have to fear in this country, to my way of thinking, is the influence of the organized minorities, because…

— Al Smith

The fact that the majority wants something good does not give them the right to use force on the minority that don't…

— Penn Jillette

...The Court ...[recognizes]...the persistence of racial inequality and a majority's acknowledgement of Congress's authority to act affirmatively, not only to end discrimination,…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I'm part of the mushball middle. I consider 'confused' the majority position because, thankfully, most people would rather be uncertain some of…

— Al Franken

What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government…

— Olusegun Obasanjo

Maybe a lot of people probably didn't know this, but I spent the majority of my career in print journalism.

— Jemele Hill

Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.

— Aristotle

One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.

— Noam Chomsky

A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our…

— Alain de Botton

I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is…

— Douglas Hofstadter

It is no less the duty of the minority than a majority to endeavour to defend the country.

— John C. Calhoun

Not a majority of the offense is run for me to post. I'm fine with that, but I want to play better…

— Roy Hibbert

“History honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget.”

— Suzy Kassem

I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.

— John Coltrane

We have a small faction, and they are a minority, who believe they are there to govern. Then there is the majority…

— Tom DeLay

There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country.

— Jack Balkin