Majority Quotes
1675 quotes by 1208 authors
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Everyone knows how to love,because we are all born with that gift.Some people have a natural talent for it but the majority of us have…
— Paulo Coelho
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I just happen to comprehend the low standards of the majority of the music-buying public, and I don’t care how condescending that sounds, it’s true.…
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude.…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!
— Aldous Huxley
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We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite…
— Michael Cunningham
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The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations,…
— Helen Keller
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A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily…
— Alain de Botton
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Philosophy, art, politics, religion and bohemia have never sought to do away entirely with the status hierarchy; they have attemptee, rather, to institute new kinds…
— Alain de Botton
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The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some…
— B.F. Skinner
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It's called male bonding. You'll never get it. I believe women are as capable as men, deserve equal pay—and that one day, should be sooner…
— Nora Roberts
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Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.
— Naomi Wolf
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We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget…
— Woodrow Wilson
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In a few more days I'd anticipated telling Veronika that our injections had cured her heart condition. But in light of her unscheduled departure form…
— Paulo Coelho
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The vast majority of us imagine ourselves as like literature people or math people. But the truth is that the massive processor known as the…
— John Green
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority
— Henrik Ibsen
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Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)
— Cornel West
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It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But…
— Alan Moore
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Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.
— Richard Matheson
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Everybody feels safe belonging not to the excluded minority but to the excluding majority. You think, Oh, I’m glad that’s not me. It’s basically the…
— Haruki Murakami
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No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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