Majority Quotes

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In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced an… — Tadatoshi Akiba
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never… — James Thurber
A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless. — Antonin Scalia
In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces. — Mikhail Bakunin
Were it necessary to bring a majority into a comprehension of the libertarian philosophy, the cause of liberty would be utterly hopeless. Every significant movement… — Leonard Read
The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are… — A. V. Dicey
Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law. — Lori Lipman Brown
We now have a global community that calculates how to maximize the benefits for a few at the expense of the majority — Irene Fernandez
Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed. — Baron de Montesquieu
Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane. — Robert Breault
Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and west are products… — Isabel Wilkerson
The best proof that Christ has risen is that he is still alive. And for the immense majority of our contemporaries, the only way of… — Louis Evely
Every climate scientist has his or her own views on some issues that differ from the mainstream in detail. But the broad findings of the… — Ross Garnaut
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in… — Bertrand Russell
If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive… — June Jordan
By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men. — Richard P. Stanley
The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious. — William E. Gladstone
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the… — Richard Dawkins

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