Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
The great majority of the Christian world is still weeping at the foot of the cross. The consciousness of man is fixed… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not… — Pat Brown Copy Share Image
The other way is the multiverse way. That says that maybe the universe we are in is one of a very large… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Don't follow the crowd. The side of the majority is the riskiest place to have dust thrown on your uniqueness.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things .... it's not only worth… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
The main point of democracy is to deliver positive results for the majority. — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
There was a very strong bipartisan coalition in Congress under President Bill Clinton that passed the Defense of Marriage Act. And you've… — Steve Scalise Copy Share Image
The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Donald Trump could win the presidency without a popular-vote majority only because both parties have been locked into base-turnout strategies that are… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I learned the game on the radio. Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons were the Giants broadcasters when I was growing up in… — Jon Miller Copy Share Image
You'll never get progress in Washington until you have a majority, bipartisan majority, that really wants to solve problems. — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Stephen Harper is trying to load the dice between now and the next election in his own favour. Never before in the… — Thomas Mulcair Copy Share Image
Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
It is deeply interesting to notice also where the citizens were put to work. Each was set to labor on the bit… — George H Morrison Copy Share Image
Anytime I need any type of strength, the relationships that I have had with my closest friends for the majority of my… — Sean Mackin Copy Share Image
I think the stuff that plays on the radio, the majority of it is for teenagers, which is okay. That's what pop… — LL Cool J Copy Share Image
A majority of the successful women on the pop scene conform to what a woman is supposed to be. Some have tried… — Orlan Copy Share Image
the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
