The Majority Quotes

In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process.

The sad fact is that the vast majority of drunks stay drunks. There's a small minority of us who reach that fork in the road where one side says 'live' and the other says 'drink'.

Look at all the minorities around here! I'm the only majority.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

I was a member of the Florida legislature for nine years, the speaker of the house, majority leader, majority whip.

I’m like a twenty two year old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.

Anyone who strays too far from the majority view or the conventional wisdom is bound to be labeled "arrogant," "a maverick," "a Wildman," "weird," or even "crazy."

I think the hard thing for young comedians is that the majority of the young people in the audience out there don't have the wide range of references.

The great silent majority.

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 be persuaded.

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.

Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.

No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority.

Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.

Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is conducive to development, peace, justice and civility.

The women I love most are Latina - my sister, mother, and daughter. They're spontaneous but spend a majority of their time trying to make others happy.

The vast majority of the American people are hard-working taxpayers who take responsibility for their families, go to work every day, they pay their mortgage on time, they volunteer in the community.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.

When a majority of my prayers are for others to change, I've gotten off track. Lord, change this sinner's heart.

In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.

Good is the enemy of great.. The vast majority of good companies remain just that - good, but not great.

The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long rendered obsolete.

The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed in their old perceptual attitudes.

Of whom shall I be afraid? One with God is a majority.

Gloria Steinem in the women's movement. Eleanor Smeal of the Feminist Majority. There are all of these great wonderful women I've met that are so inspirational.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.

Justice, not the majority, should rule.

For the vast majority of places in America, there is no way you can build a security system such as we have here because of the high priority this rates in terms of terrorist interests.

That most risky and volatile of all things a self-pitying majority.

The majority of surveys throughout this Nation show that the American people are advocating for a comprehensive and realistic approach to immigration reform.

How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want?

The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.

The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.

The majority of business men are not capable of an original thought, simply because they cannot escape the tyranny of reason.

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

The majority of people consider their work a means to an end. People who work for money only come to the end faster than people who are involved in their life’s purpose every day.

Therefore the vast majority of the people who affirm leftist beliefs think of their views as the only way to properly think about life.

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

The vast majority of the CGI budget is labor.

The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.

Simply put, ObamaCare cost Americans jobs through uncertainty and now implementation threatens even more jobs. No wonder the majority of Americans continue to oppose it.

Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.

In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in that situation we pass.

Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin