Majority Quotes
1675 quotes by 1208 authors
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When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I…
— Louise Redknapp
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Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and…
— William Allen White
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Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?
— Robert Breault
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Government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit and security of the people, nation or community; whenever any government shall be found…
— George Mason
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Revolutions can no longer be achieved by minorities. No matter how energetic and intelligent a minority may be, it is not enough, in modern times…
— Jean Jaures
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The majority of human conflict comes from people just feeling disrespected.
— Paul K. Chappell
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If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a…
— Lysander Spooner
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When a legislature decides to steal some of our rights and plans to use police force to accomplish it, what's the real difference between them…
— H. L. Richardson
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The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys freedom,…
— Henry Grady Weaver
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The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in…
— Jack Welch
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A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when…
— Aristotle
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The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which they generally receive. They apply…
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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The country will some day pay for the stupidities of those who were in the majority on this commission. They know as much about the…
— Jimmy Doolittle
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The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Although the vast majority of walkers never even think of using a walking staff, I unhesitatingly include it among the foundations of the house that…
— Colin Fletcher
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Small and mid-sized companies in this country historically have been responsible for creating the overwhelming majority of new jobs in the private sector. One of…
— Michael Milken
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Small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please about a given subject. But there are usually proponents…
— Edward Bernays
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Like a majority of Americans in recent years, I came to understand that fear of homosexuality was leading our governments ... to deny the equal…
— Ronnie Musgrove
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What’s so curious about human beings is that we can look deeply into the future, foresee disaster, and still do nothing in the present to…
— Daniel Gilbert
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To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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