To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
Illegal immigration is praised only by those who benefit directly from it, whether in the familial sense of inexpensive nannies, cooks, or… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
From watching the news one would think the Iraqis want us out of their country. But an overwhelming majority of Iraqis support… — Jim Bunning Copy Share Image
I don't see a huge difference between the African condition and the black American condition. The only real difference is that black… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later the market will do what it has to do to prove the majority wrong. And:” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Founders understood that democracy was important, but if you didn't filter it through a republican system you'd be just as likely… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The democratic ideal springs from the ideas of liberty, equality, majority rule through free elections, protection of the rights of minorities, and… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Apartheid — both petty and grand — is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
No matter how long you'd been in the country, if you weren't in Australia for the majority of 2000 to 2002 -… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying "Enough!" He is every minority who is now beginning to speak… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
Much of the criticism of economic globalization has centered on factory labor abuses. But the majority of the world's poor are not… — David Bornstein Copy Share Image
I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
There are lots of people who give their all and have that inner glow on. It's a shame that majority of them… — Esa Saarinen Copy Share Image
The majority should not be punished and subjected to a licensing curfew because of the bad behavior of the minority. — Tessa Jowell Copy Share Image
FDR created today's 30 percent coalition. Obama wants to finish the job by turning it into a permanent ruling majority. There's nothing… — Arthur C. Brooks Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of… — Richard Lugar Copy Share Image
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The majority of Jews are secular... the Nazis never checked if anyone was going to the synagogue or eating kosher. — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
Of one thing the executive may be sure: that the majority want more of the good things of life, and if they… — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
Cities are important because that's where the majority of the world's population lives and an even bigger share of the global economy… — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
Communists should be the most farsighted, the most self-sacrificing, the most resolute, and the least prejudiced in sizing up situations, and should… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The way I think liberties get eroded is not that all of a sudden you become an Orwellian state, but gradually it… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
