The Majority Quotes

In a racially divided society, majority rule is not a reliable instrument of democracy.

Mother Earth is giving birth to a co-creative humanity. There's not a majority anywhere, but it's cropping up everywhere, because old leadership does not have the authority to guide us.

Don't make decisions by majority vote. The majority is almost always wrong.

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

When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.

There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.

The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.

The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

Whatever the majority of people is doing, under any given circumstances, if you do the exact opposite, you will probably never make another mistake as long as you live.

The best proof that Christ has risen is that he is still alive. And for the immense majority of our contemporaries, the only way of seeing him alive is for us Christians to love one another.

A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.

A very few lonely pioneers make their way to high places never before visited . . . they create the living conditions of mankind and the majority are living on their work.

We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it.

Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

The majority of the people I work with are more than musicians and singers, they are personal friends and friends help each other.

The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.

In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.

A recent poll shows that a majority of blacks, whites, Asians and Hispanics do not think the Census should be classifying people as black, white, Asian and Hispanic.

The majority is wicked.

I believe there's an emerging American majority for progressive economic change.

If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?

There has never been a successful social movement for any minority without the support of the majority.

I would argue that a majority of the horrors we face would not have happened if the accounting profession developed and enforced better accounting.

The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property owned by primitive Gods and incompetent governments.

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.

Although the vast majority of walkers never even think of using a walking staff, I unhesitatingly include it among the foundations of the house that travels on my back.

Having plead guilty, I do not believe that I am any different than the vast majority of the members of Congress.

Democracy, which began by liberating man politically, has developed a dangerous tendency to enslave him through the tyranny of majorities and the deadly power of their opinion.

One man with truth on his side is stronger than a majority in error, and will conquer in the end.

One man with courage is a majority.

One and God make a majority.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.

Without [firmness] I see the majority of Communities that are lax reach that state because of the excessive leniency of Superiors. So, be firm, Monsieur.

Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

No settlement with the majority community is possible, as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.

The politics of envy is the politics of this commandment: "Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote." It is the politics of two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that later turned out to be right.

The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.

I enjoy playing real human beings after playing a lot of larger than life characters. I love playing true to life characters and that is what I intend to do for the majority of my career.

The real objection to the great majority of cats is their insufferable air of superiority.

The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.