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Majority Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion
- Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to…
- 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…
- 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.…
- Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves,…
- To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves,…
- Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves,…
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