The Majority Quotes

Of all tyrannies a country can suffer, the worst is the tyranny of the majority.

the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny.

Clearly, Iran has influence in Iraq. Iraq has a majority Shi'a population, they have relationships to Iran. Some are natural.

The majority of women in America look like me.

The majority of life on Earth is microbial

I may have no idea what I'm talking about," I said, a little ticked off now. "But we're all a part of a minority waiting for a majority to pull their heads out of their asses.

Senator majority leader, Mitch McConnell, slammed [Donald] Trump's comments about burning the American flag which is protected under the first amendment should lead to jail time.

The majority of people pull for the underdog. Heck, even your friends don't like you to be too successful. We've lost enough over the years for me to maintain my friendships.

Religious people are not entitled to special rights, even if they are elected leaders or in the majority; they are not allowed to force everyone to support their religion.

Between 1994 and the year 2000, when the Republican majority was in control of the House of Representatives, President Clinton played House Speaker Newt Gringrich like a violin!

For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great beauty to it.

If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle class.

In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules.

The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.

We must stop being polite and behaved and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

The large majority of faith-based people are decent, fair-minded people. We should not characterize people of faith as the adversaries of GLBT equality.

My life is very simple. I like simplicity and for my time to be my own, so that I have the freedom to devote the majority of it to Islam.

The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.

The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.

The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%.

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

I think after Sam Nunn left, I'm the last guy in the Senate who got a majority white male vote in their state.

If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray.

You can't win a majority mandate unless you get back 60 per cent of the votes between the ages of 18 and 35. It's a fact.

Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not. . . . The bottomline is that good kids don't suddenly go bad in adolescence.

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.

If, in a democracy, the cognition of the majority is not much better than the cognition of the sheep, democracy will surely fail.

I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.

The country was founded on the principle that primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains.

The vast majority of the world knows there's no reason to circumcise. Someone should tell the doctors.

Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so.

If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.

But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority

I envision some years from now that the majority of search queries will be answered without you actually asking. It'll just know this is something that you're going to want to see.

The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.

By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men.

Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.

If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you.

It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority’s falsehood as truth, could be fatal.

Do you realize that at the moment we have Barry Goldwater fighting the Moral Majority, with The New York Times rooting for Goldwater? Times have changed.

I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.

The words "silent majority" are very descriptive of what is happening with me.

Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.

When the silent majority opens its mouth, it is usually to yawn.

The silent majority, that's actually an invention of Richard Nixon's.

Someone who expresses a view that is contrary to the view of the overwhelming majority should be allowed to stand undisturbed as a monument to our commitment to free speech.

The vast majority of gun owners don't kill, but people who do kill, tend to kill with guns, and often with illegal guns.

The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.