Majority Quotes - Page 31

• Only majorities can expand political rights in America's constitutional society.

  David Barton

  Rights, America, Political

  "MLK’s Legacy Under Siege in Texas" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. January 18, 2010.

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• Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was not a pacifist. He opposed conscription because it deprived the citizen of the right to decide for himself whether or not to join in the fight. Keynes was exempt as a civil servant from conscription; so there is no need to question his sincerity. Apparently his belief in the rights of the individual against a majority of his compatriots was very strong indeed.

  Mancur Olson

  Strong, Attitude, War

  Mancur OLSON (2009). “The Logic of Collective Action”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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• If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed by everything in the world and by the great majority of evangelicals. You're going to be opposed.

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, World, Christ

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• The truth is this: I am a Southern Baptist, and the great majority of Southern Baptists are lost.

  Paul Washer

  Southern, Baptists, Truth Is

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• It is easy enough to vote right and be consistently with the majority. But it is more often more important to be ahead of the majority and this means being willing to cut the first furrow in the ground and stand alone for a while if necessary.

  Patsy Mink

  Mean, Cutting, Important

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

  Dennis Prager

  Significant

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• But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.

  Sergey Brin

  Book, Black, Library

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• America was founded on majority rule, not supermajority rule. Somehow, over the years, this has morphed into supermajority rule, and that changes things.

  Kent Conrad

  Years, Majority Rule, America

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• I think we're vastly over-invested in universities. Universities should be relatively small and provide excellent education and research in a number of specialized areas. I think the vast majority of young people should be going through non-university, post-secondary training.

  Stephen Harper

  Thinking, Numbers, People

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• The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process.

  John Jay Hooker

  Giving, Advice, President

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• My resolution, standing with the vast majority of Americans who know we can and must be safer, is to cede no ground to those who would convince us the path is too steep, or we too weak.

  Gabrielle Giffords

  Convince Us, Path, Weak

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. January 8, 2014.

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• The balance of power is shifting toward consumers and away from companies The right way to respond to this if you are a company is to put the vast majority of your energy, attention and dollars into building a great product or service and put a smaller amount into shouting about it, marketing it.

  Jeff Bezos

  Marketing, Balance, Energy

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

  Professor Griff

  Wickedness, World, Responsible

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• Start buying gold now, regardless of the price. By acting now, you will not have to react when it's too late. Too late will be when the majority of the public finally figures out what is happening to paper money and frantically tries to get aboard. Remember, if you're one of the ones holding paper in the end, you will have given away your products and services for nothing.

  Robert Ringer

  Acting, Gold, Trying

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• The most foreign fighters in Iraq are wearing British and American uniforms. The level of self-delusion is bordering frankly on the racist. The vast majority of the people of Iraq are against the occupation of Iraq by the American and British forces.

  George Galloway

  Self, Iraq, People

  "Hitchens vs Galloway: The big debate", The Independent, September 16, 2005.

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• Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the watch for them; but the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind.

  Algernon Blackwood

  Fall, Adventure, Past

  Algernon Blackwood (2011). “Four Weird Tales”, p.4, The Floating Press

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• Life for the majority of the population.
  Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds.
  Culminating in a cheap funeral.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Struggle, Odds, Funeral

  Siegfried Sassoon (1983). “Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• As I said in the Times and will say again here, I do, however, believe that most members of our community - as well as the majority of heterosexuals - cannot and do not choose the gender of the persons with whom they seek to have intimate relationships because, unlike me, they are only attracted to one sex.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Sex, Believe, Intimate Relationships

  "Cynthia Nixon Updates Her Controversial Statement: She Now Says She is "Technically" Bisexual". www.glamour.com. January 31, 2012.

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• One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Ideas, Able, Certain

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• I am sure the majority of Iranians want a peace agreement with Israel and want Iran to integrate with the international community and accept its universal values.

  Moshe Katsav

  Israel, Agreement, Iran

  "Interview: Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". Interview with Farnoush Ram, www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.

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• We have learned that a majority of parents whose children have late-onset or acquired autism believe it is vaccine-related. They deserve answers. We have also learned that the parents have been our best investigators in looking for both causes of autism and for treatments.

  Dan Burton

  Children, Believe, Vaccines

  Dan Burton's Opening Statement during Congressional Hearing "The Status of Research into Vaccine Safety and Autism", www.gpo.gov. June 19, 2002.

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• If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.

  Vic Snyder

  Attitude, Thinking, Responsible

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• No episode is a priori condemned to remain an episode forever, for every event, no matter how trivial, conceals within itself the possibility of sooner or later becoming the cause of other events and thus changing into a story or an adventure. Episodes are like land mines. The majority of them never explode, but the most unremarkable of them may someday turn into a story that will prove fateful to you.

  Milan Kundera

  Adventure, Land, Forever

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• 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.

  Che Guevara

  Numbers, Warfare, Defense

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.52, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• The right of the majority is absolute.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Absolutes

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1926). “Individual liberty: selections from the writings of Benjamin R. Tucker”

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