Majority Quotes
1675 Majority quotes by 1165 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
— Lord Acton
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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
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The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.
— Duane Michals
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A majority of the Syrian people believe in the regime and support Bashar al-Assad.
— Hassan Nasrallah
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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
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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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