Majority Quotes
1675 quotes by 1208 authors
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I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the world. Our involvement…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority
— Ray Bradbury
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Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it…
— William Faulkner
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Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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I'm infatuated with you, I cannot deny it. Physically speaking, you're a very attractive man. But I don't like you, the vast majority of the…
— Tessa Dare
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Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she…
— John Irving
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…the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead,…
— Leo Tolstoy
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‎A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts…
— John Stuart Mill
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The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few…
— Eric Hoffer
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The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith.
— Carl Jung
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Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life…
— Adrian Tan
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Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried…
— Francine Rivers
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‎Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against "society," that is, against the…
— Emma Goldman
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In District 12, looking old is something of an achievement since so many people die early. You see an elderly person, you want to congratulate…
— Suzanne Collins
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One of the great tragedies of modern education is that most people are not taught to think critically. The majority of the world’s people, those…
— Haki R. Madhubuti
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Not all Muslims become involved in acts of violence. Yet all might be held culpable. THis is because that section of Muslim--in fact, the majority--who…
— Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
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Those who were on the inside, the majority that is, for them it had been hard to get his point, mostly they were just pleased…
— Peter Høeg
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We may now have reached a point where this gap in our make-up has become unsustainable; partly because what in the past would have counted…
— Dalai Lama
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It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.
— E. M. Forster
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