Majority Quotes
1675 quotes by 1208 authors
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According to recent opinion polls, a large majority of Iraqis believe that the U.S. military has no intention to leave Iraq, and that it would…
— John Conyers
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The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.
— Leonard Peikoff
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Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them;…
— Algernon Blackwood
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As I said in the Times and will say again here, I do, however, believe that most members of our community — as well as…
— Cynthia Nixon
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A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
— Pierre de Coubertin
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One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority
— Nicolas Chamfort
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To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system…
— John C. Calhoun
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We have learned that a majority of parents whose children have late-onset or acquired autism believe it is vaccine-related. They deserve answers. We have also…
— Dan Burton
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans,…
— Vic Snyder
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No episode is a priori condemned to remain an episode forever, for every event, no matter how trivial, conceals within itself the possibility of sooner…
— Milan Kundera
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Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.
— Eliot Ness
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And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into…
— Sharron Angle
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Guerrilla warfare is used by the side which is supported by a majority but which possesses a much smaller number of arms for use in…
— Che Guevara
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The minority yields to the majority!
— Deng Xiaoping
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The right of the majority is absolute.
— Benjamin Tucker
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The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men,…
— Lysander Spooner
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The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts. Have they no…
— H. L. Mencken
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After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity.
— Cat Stevens
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Armed struggle is a necessary and morally correct form of resistance in the Six Counties against a government whose presence is rejected by the vast…
— Gerry Adams
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Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with…
— George Lincoln Rockwell
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