The Majority Quotes

I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.

The Ambassador and the General were briefing me on the....the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice.

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we're going to have $10 of spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement - put me in, Coach.

The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.

Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles.

Un homme avec Dieu est toujours dans la majorite . One man with God is always a majority.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

The majority of players are looking for reasons to fold. I am looking for reasons to play.

The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations.

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.

The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.

Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.

The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.

The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country.

My resolution, standing with the vast majority of Americans who know we can and must be safer, is to cede no ground to those who would convince us the path is too steep, or we too weak.

I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women.

There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker John Boehner.

We now have a global community that calculates how to maximize the benefits for a few at the expense of the majority.

By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bullying and trying to ignore it for a long time.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

A community is only a community when the majority of its members are making the transition from 'the community for myself' to 'myself for the community'.

Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then people of color are the majority in this world. We should be the 'first world.'

The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs.

For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.

I devote my life to the rebirth of the Jewish State, with a Jewish majority, on both sides of the Jordan.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.

The vast majority of organizations today have more than enough intelligence, experience and knowledge to be successful. What they lack is organizational health.

You cannot, for instance, sustainably protect the environment if the majority of the people are still in primitive agriculture leading to the encroachment of forest reserves.

We're the richest economy in the history of the world. For the majority of Americans not to get the benefits of this extraordinarily prosperous economy, there's something fundamentally wrong.

The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost without noticing them.

The country will some day pay for the stupidities of those who were in the majority on this commission. They know as much about the future of aviation as they do about the sign writing of the Aztecs.

Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.

I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.

You know that a majority of the medical costs that are bankrupting families, companies, and nations could be eliminated with better nutrition.

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.

It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.

We are against the majority tyrannizing the minority. But we are definitely against the minority tyrannizing the majority.