Majority Quotes

1675 Majority quotes by 1165 unique authors

If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can… — Sandra Day O'Connor
There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard.… — Nelson DeMille
It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the… — Joseph Campbell
The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least… — Blaise Pascal
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend… — Edmund Burke
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty,… — Joseph Brodsky
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority. — Lord Acton
The majority of Americans receive health insurance coverage through their employers, but with rising health care costs, many small businesses can no longer afford to… — Jim Ryun
The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing. — Duane Michals
The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but… — Edward Dahlberg
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader. — Julian Barnes
Stephen Harper, who's the prime minister of Canada, he is saying that this - we have to give him a majority government, otherwise there will… — Rick Mercer
I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the… — W. S. Gilbert
In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities, the killer and… — Jonathan Raban
There is apparently nowhere a workable majority in the representative assemblies for making the specific cuts in expenditure which could bring down the taxes, and… — Gunnar Myrdal
All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to… — Aaron Levie
Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending… — Azar Nafisi
A majority of the Syrian people believe in the regime and support Bashar al-Assad. — Hassan Nasrallah
There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they're given tasks and told what to do. I think it's actually… — Mark Pincus
The great majority of the Senate of the United States...somewhere around 80 percent...are completely in support of Israel, anything Israel wants. This has been demonstrated… — J. William Fulbright

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