Majority Quotes

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The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The vast majority of the world knows there's no reason to circumcise. Someone should tell the doctors. — Penn Jillette
Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge.… — Viktor E. Frankl
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long… — Srully Blotnick
Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and… — Alan Barth
The majority of people pull for the underdog. Heck, even your friends don't like you to be too successful. We've lost enough over the years… — Darrell Royal
I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree to calculations or… — Hiram Maxim
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation. — Albert Camus
It's amnesty that America can't afford. We have to stop people from coming in illegally. This will be a green light for anyone who wants… — Lou Barletta
One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted. — Thomas Reed
There is a general kind of praying which fails for lack of precision. It is as if a regiment of soldiers should all fire off… — Charles Spurgeon
Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously. — William Eldridge Odom
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of… — Lord Acton
Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is conducive… — Mahnaz Afkhami
There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in… — Mark Twain
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than… — Jimmy Carter
The majority of the things that I do, I'm actually afraid to do, but you just have to have a positive attitude and block out… — Aly Raisman
And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition of… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The majority of people are timid by nature, and that is why they constantly exaggerate danger. all influences on the military leader, therefore, combine to… — Carl von Clausewitz
In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of… — Alfred Russel Wallace

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