Majority Quotes - Page 32

• 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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• The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves; a contest, that-however bloody-can, in the nature of things, never be finally closed, so long as man refuses to be a slave.

  Lysander Spooner

  Men, Two, Long

  Lysander Spooner (1867). “No Treason: No. 1-”, p.9

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• The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts. Have they no means of resistance? Obviously they have. The worst tyrant, even under democratic plutocracy, has but one throat to slit. The moment the majority decided to overthrow him he would be overthrown. But the majority lacks the resolution; it cannot imagine taking the risks.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mean, Men, Tyrants

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Notes On Democracy”, p.41, Knopf

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• After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity.

  Cat Stevens

  Brother, Dark, People

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• Armed struggle is a necessary and morally correct form of resistance in the Six Counties against a government whose presence is rejected by the vast majority of the Irish people There are those who tell us that the British government will not be moved by armed struggle. As has been said before, the history of Ireland and of British colonial involvement throughout the world tells us that they will not be moved by anything else.

  Gerry Adams

  Struggle, Government, People

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• To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people.

  Van Jones

  Law, People, Culture

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• We want to begin in working-class neighborhoods. We want to test the concept there, because our idea is that fair trade should not just be for the elites, but for everyone, for the majority, for the poor people. Quality food for poor people. Why just quality for the rich? And at an equal price

  Victor Suarez Melendez

  Class, Ideas, People

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• Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me, let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains.

  John Sentamu

  Pain, Struggle, Other Cultures

  "Reclaiming the English tradition" by Francis Sedgemore, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2006.

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• Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Men, Roots, Prudence

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.190, Princeton University Press

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• I consider that a most ignoble endeavor. The only way I would like to 'help' the great majority of people is the same way Carl Panzram 'reformed' people who tried to reform him. It would be most merciful to help them by relieving them of the life they seem to hate so much. People should be happy I'm not a humanitarian-or I'd probably be the most diabolical mass murderer the world has ever known.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Hate, People, Reform

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• Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.

  Lion Feuchtwanger

  Struggle, Thinking, Views

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• The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the unrestrained will of the majority, with force, threats, and intimidation being the order of the day. Today's federal government is considerably at odds with that envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. ... [The War] also laid to rest the great principle enunciated in the Declaration of Independence that 'Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed'.

  Walter E. Williams

  War, Men, America

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• Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil. Nothing can justify the arrogant assumption that a clique of foreigners has the right to decide on the lives of a majority.

  Steven Biko

  Evil, Arrogant, Assumption

  "I Write What I Like (We Blacks)". Book by Steven Biko, 1978.

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• The future is our responsibility, but change will not take place until the majority loose confidence in their dictator’s and elected officials’ ability to solve problems.  It will likely take an economic catastrophe resulting in enormous human suffering to bring about true social change.

  Jacque Fresco

  Responsibility, Suffering, Problem

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• Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely. 'Tis pedantry to estimate nations by the census, or by square miles of land, or other than by their importance to the mind of the time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Land, Squares

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1081, Library of America

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• If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.

  Jane Rule

  Gay, People, Inspire

  Jane Rule (2013). “Outlander: Short Stories and Essays”, p.247, Open Road Media

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• Since I invoke Torah so often, let me state that I don't personally believe in the God it postulates ... I am not religious, nor were the majority of the early builders of Israel believers. Yet their passion for this land stemmed from the Book of Books ... [The Bible is] the single most important book in my life.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Religious, Believe, Book

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• What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether it be a copy of verses or a geometrical theorem, is to have done something utterly beyond the powers of the vast majority of men.

  G. H. Hardy

  Character, Science, Men

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.76, Cambridge University Press

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• The American people already know that Bill Clinton is a bad boy, a naughty boy. I'm going to speak out for the citizens of my state, who in the majority think that Bill Clinton is probably even a nasty, bad, naughty boy.

  Larry Craig

  Boys, Naughty, Thinking

  "Political Junkie: Sen. Larry Craig's Guilty Plea". "Talk Of The Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. August 29, 2007.

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• I would be very happy to see 3.5 billion humans wiped out from the face of the earth within the next 150 or 200 years and I am quite prepared to go myself with this majority... let us all look forward to the day when the catastrophe strikes us down!

  John Aspinall

  Years, Would Be, Looks

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• I created hoaxes. I confronted and challenged the majority opinion. I attacked, humiliated, and criticized the voice of the corporate mainstream media.

  Joey Skaggs

  Media, Voice, Hoaxes

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• If the majority holds some thing of value, you can be certain it has none.

  John McAfee

  Certain, Ifs, Values

  Anti-virus presentation, Sydney, Australia, 1991.

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• The real issue at hand is how God is going to respond to a culture when the majority of the people seek to veto Him.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Real, Issues

  Tony Evans (2014). “One Nation Under God: His Rule Over Your Country”, p.27, Moody Publishers

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• My own personal dream is that the majority of the web runs on open source software.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Running, Dream, Source

  "Big Omaha 2010". Conference Interview, May 2010.

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