The Majority Quotes

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.

I’ve come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.

Divine Law is not subject nor affected by the majority vote of humanity

It is not shortage of time that should worry us, but the tendency for the majority of time to be spent in low-quality ways.

Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.

The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.

I disagree with what the majority of the American people want.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.

Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.

Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral.

One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority

It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.

I feel like we have to have [plus size models] as soon as possible. We're the norm. We're the majority.

Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.

The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.

To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.

A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.

The man with courage is a majority.

The White Majority is the Problem

For evil to take place, the acts of a few people are not sufficient; the great majority also has to remain indifferent. That is something of which we are all quite capable.

It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.

Majorities, of course, start with minorities.

The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.

World history is made by minorities when this minority of number embodies the majority of will and determination.

The majority of the things that I do, I'm actually afraid to do, but you just have to have a positive attitude and block out any fears that you have.

The terrible tyranny of the majority.

The vast majority of the shuttle program was a success. We learned so much about how a reusable spacecraft interacts with its environment, how it ages-and what to design next time.

Jesus clearly taught that the majority of humanity will spend eternity in hell, and only a few will find the exclusive way to salvation.

When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.

I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.

It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated.

The majority can never replace the man

A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.

He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease.

Happiness is not a sign that we are right with God; happiness is a sign of satisfaction, that is all, and the majority of us can be satisfied on too low a level.

A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity – a value is not a weight. The reasons of the majority cannot be taken as good reasons.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

Let's make two things clear: Isil is not "Islamic." No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of Isil's victims have been Muslim. And Isil is certainly not a state.

There are lots of people who give their all and have that inner glow on. It's a shame that majority of them are under seven years old.

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions....there was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

According to recent opinion polls, a large majority of Iraqis believe that the U.S. military has no intention to leave Iraq, and that it would stay even is asked by the Iraqi government to leave.

I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.

Business schools make a fortune forcing their students to take in a HUGE amount of information. The majority of it is theoretical. The majority of that is useless.

The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.