The Majority Quotes

I figured something out. And it is no secret what I figured out. Whatever the majority of people were doing, I found myself doing the opposite. I wanted to chase something great.

In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

Aggressive capitalism leads the world, and we can see the results, especially in Europe: more poverty for the vast majority, and more riches for a few.

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.

Truth is not arrived at by majority vote.

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

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

If a consensus of the majority is all it takes to determine what is right, then having and controlling information becomes extraordinarily important.

The headlines are critically important. The majority of the public reads little else when deciding whether or not they are interested.

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.

At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.

Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully.

What I want people to know about Ethiopia is that it is a country of nations and nationalities. Oromos are the majority. But Oromos have been so good to Ethiopia but have been marginalized for years.

Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them.

The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

One must not mistake majority for truth.

Supreme power rests in the will of all or of the majority.

The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.

Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.

The majority of people do not accept my choices.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 majority never has right on its side.

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

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.

As for our majority... one is enough.

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

One with the law is a majority.

Of whom shall I be afraid? One with God is a majority.

In America, we're kind of lazy. But in New York, it's one of those places where you see the majority of people hustling. If you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.

The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed in their old perceptual attitudes.

The majority of the people of the world today are unsane, not insane, unsane meaning having been exposed to methods of evaluation that have long rendered obsolete.

Good is the enemy of great.. The vast majority of good companies remain just that - good, but not great.

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.