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Majority Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the great majority of…
- The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and is capable of…
- The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts. Have they no…
- The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same…
- Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every…
- Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government,…
- It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
More Majority Quotes
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable.… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
- We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of… — Marcus Aurelius
- The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that… — Lord Acton
- The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. — Honore de Balzac
- It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the… — Samuel Adams
- When the American people elected Barack Obama and large Democrat majorities, the die was cast. ObamaCare was coming. Popular or not, constitutional… — Bob Beauprez
- The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us… — Glenn Beck
- I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud… — Adele
- The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood. — Otto von Bismarck
- We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture… — Ambrose Bierce