Majority Vote Quotes

• Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, Chartwell

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• Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Catholic, Determined, Truth Is

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• Truth is not determined by majority vote.

  Douglas Gwyn

  Witty, Truth, Greed

  "Why not pick *nice* places for the Usenix conventions?". Douglas Gwyn's post in USENET newsgroup comp.org.usenix, groups.google.com. July 3, 1991.

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• Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

  Larry Flynt

  Sheep, Rights, Government

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Alexander Fraser Tytler

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

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• We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Witty, Freedom

  "The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin’s Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe’s Neighbors, His Almanack, Comic Drawings". Book by Kin Hubbard, October 1, 1984.

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• You can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

  Larry Flynt

  Niece, Sheep, Majority Rule

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• I believe in helping our fellow man in need. I believe that reaching into your own pockets to help someone in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into somebody else's pockets to help your fellow man in need is despicable. And, or those of us who are Christians, I'm very sure that when God gave Moses the commandment Thou Shalt Not Steal, he did not mean ...unless you get a majority vote in Congress.

  Walter E. Williams

  Christian, Believe, Mean

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• Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.

  Gary North

  Majority, Vote, Stealing

  Gary North (1991). “Liberating Planet Earth: An Introduction to Biblical Blueprints”, Dominion Pr

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

  Myles Munroe

  Law, Humanity, Divine

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

  Adrian Rogers

  Decision, Always Wrong, Majority

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• Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

  Debbie Stabenow

  Exercise, Voting, Democracy

  "Democratic Sen. Stabenow On Health Care". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 4, 2010.

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• Majorities can be wrong, majorities can overrule rights of minorities. If majorities ruled, we could still have slavery. 80% of the population once enslaved 20% of the population. While run by majority rule that is ok. That is very flawed notion of what democracy is. Democracy has to take into account several things - proportionate requirements of people, not just needs of the majority, but also needs of the minority. Majority, especially in societies where the media manipulates public opinion, can be totally wrong and evil. People have to act according to conscience and not by majority vote.

  Howard Zinn

  Running, Democracies Have, Rights

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• Truth is not arrived at by majority vote.

  Peter Atkins

  Majority, Vote, Truth Is

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• Thou shalt not steal unless thou hast a majority vote in Congress.... I'm healthy; subsidized prescription drugs won't do me much good. I'd be willing to forego my prescription drugs if Congress would force some young American to mow my lawn.

  Walter E. Williams

  Drug, Healthy, Stealing

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• A majority vote is not an epistemological validation of an idea. Voting is merely a proper political device--within a strictly, constitutionall y delimited sphere of action--for choosing the practical means of implementing a society’s basic principles. But those principles are not determined by vote.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Validation, Ideas

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.522, Penguin

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• Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Principles, Moral, Depends

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• I have always been a fan of reality by majority vote.

  Stephen Colbert

  Reality, Fans, Majority

  "Don McLeroy, Former Texas Education Board Chair, On The Colbert Report: "I Don’t Think [God] Used Evolution". "The Colbert Report" with Stephen Colbert, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2012.

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• When a legislature decides to steal some of our rights and plans to use police force to accomplish it, what's the real difference between them and the thief? Darn little! They hide behind the excuse that they're legislating democratically. The fact they do it by a majority vote has no moral significance whatsoever. Numerical might does not constitute right, no more than a lynch mob can justify its act because a majority participated.

  H. L. Richardson

  Real, Rights, Differences

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• 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.

  Gary North

  Sheep, Two, Envy

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

  Lillian Hellman

  Teaching, Government, Decision

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• Thou shall not steal, even by majority vote.

  Gary North

  Liberty, Libertarian, Stealing

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Wine, Men

  Mark Twain (194?). “Mark Twain's notebook”

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• Most Americans, who think Congress has a right to do anything for which they can get a majority vote, ignore the clearly written constitutional restraints on Congress.

  Walter E. Williams

  Thinking, Congress, Restraint

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