The Majority Quotes

Democrats may be in the minority in Congress, but we speak for the majority of Americans.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

In the vast majority of businesses, there is simply no such thing as “the best.”

I think the majority of the Liberian people want peace.

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

Most people offer the majority of their thought in response to what they are observing.

There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

The so-called conscientiousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring.

Among creatures born into chaos, a majority will imagine an order, a minority will question the order, and the rest will be pronounced insane.

Purchasing the Bobcats is the culmination of my post-playing career goal of becoming the majority owner of an NBA franchise.

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.

City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.

All the wisdom of the world consists of shouting with the majority.

The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

For the majority of Americans, collectivist or nationalized economy is morally wrong and therefore unjust. For them, free enterprise meets their keen sense of justice.

No other great master has been so misunderstood by the vast majority of chess amateurs and even by many masters, as has Emanuel Lasker.

The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

We must all move shoulder to shoulder in a unified front to show this administration that the true majority of people are willing to vote for a cleaner environment and won't back down.

The vast majority of all consequences, especially in 21st century America, are completely meaningless bullshit.

Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people.

It's a good idea not to major in minor things.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

Oh, yes--you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side--unfortunately; but right it has not.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

The majority never has right on its side.

Only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the way they are.

The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

The laughers are a majority.

In the vast majority of cases the secret society symbolism hearkens from two places - Ireland and Egypt.

Truth is never determined by majority opinion, but by divine revelation.

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.

If the majority culture know so little about us, it must be our problem, they seem to be telling us; the burden of teaching is on us.

If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would have been shuttered long ago.

Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.

And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.