Majority Quotes

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A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes. — Caitlin Moran
In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector. — Geoff Mulgan
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town? — Mark Twain
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. — Thomas Jefferson
To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Ambassador and the General were briefing me on the....the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will… — George W. Bush
It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings.… — Erich Fromm
The terrible tyranny of the majority. — Ray Bradbury
I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system… — Woodrow Wilson
I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of… — Dave Eggers
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority. — Charles Caleb Colton
I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of… — Michael Pollan
I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over. — Henrik Ibsen
Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already. — Henry David Thoreau
All the stories and descriptions of that time without exception peak only of the patriotism, self-sacrifice, despair, grief, and heroism of the Russians. But in… — Leo Tolstoy
Much Madness is divinest Sense -- To a discerning Eye -- Much Sense -- the starkest Madness -- 'Tis the Majority In this, as All,… — Emily Dickinson
The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling… — Henrik Ibsen
Itâ€™s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps itâ€™s just as well; and it may… — Joseph Conrad

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