Great Majority Quotes

76 Great Majority quotes by 65 unique authors

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse… — Stendhal
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. — Edward Young
To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority. — Charles Caleb Colton
The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it if, day after… — Boris Pasternak
The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”. The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see.… — Zig Ziglar
It is not difficult to deprive the great majority of independent thought. But the minority who will retain an inclination to criticize must also be… — Friedrich August von Hayek
There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid… — Ray Bradbury
The great majority of us are Muslims. We follow the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed (may peace be upon him). We are members of the… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to… — Sigmund Freud
For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem… — Niccolo Machiavelli
No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw… — Henry George
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the… — Carl Rogers
Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Rarely, Type 2 diabetes develops without any readily identifiable predisposing factor. But in the great majority of cases, it is brought on by lifestyle activities,… — David Perlmutter
The great majority of Scientologists I know are good people who are genuinely interested in improving conditions on this planet and helping others. — Paul Haggis
The Common Core State Standards are more rigorous standards than the great majority of states had in place previously. — Jeb Bush
In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave… — Barney Frank
Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the… — Andrew Jackson
The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem… — Tariq Ramadan
To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves,… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Good and bad luck are synonyms, in the great majority of instances, for good and bad judgment — Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or he people, constitute the great majority of those affected. — Martin Van Creveld

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