The Majority Quotes

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

The minority yields to the majority!

The will of a majority is the will of a rabble. Progressive democracy is incompatable with liberty.

I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant.

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

And this would normalize the existence of the Israeli and the Jew: a majority of Jews in the Land of Israel and a majority of Israelis among the Jewish People.

The Green Party represents that majority point of view within the U.S.

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.

Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.

Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much.

The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.

On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.

New record majority of Americans dislike the two corporate front-runners [ Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton] . This is what Lesser Evil leads to. Enough.

Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.

God had a heartbeat for 18-25 years old...the vast majority of whom don't have a clue why they are on this planet.

Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.

You will find a common dichotomy in life. Those who don't have vision or determination, and refuse to dream the impossible, are always in the majority.

The worst experience any majority can have is that you convene and you look around and nothing's ready to go.

As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority.

[N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on a minority with the minority giving in to avoid getting massacred.

By the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached.

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians.

I got one of the illest crews in NY but when I travel it's mostly me and my girl, me and my kids or me and one or two of my dudes but the majority of the time its just me.

You know why I got involved in politics? The government is now a majority partner in my life. I am now a minority partner in my own life.

Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.

Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.

Thou shall not steal, even by majority vote.

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.

The right of the majority is absolute.

Guerrilla warfare is used by the side which is supported by a majority but which possesses a much smaller number of arms for use in defense against oppression.

The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are afraid of losing their incomes.

THE MAJORITY of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one of the most regrettable facts of them all

Jews are responsible for the majority of the wickedness in the world.

Outperforming the majority of investors requires doing what they are not doing. Buying when others have despaired, and selling when they are full of hope, takes fortitude.

The majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former

No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.

So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries, one here and one in Europe, national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.

If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash.

The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of Kings.