Majority Quotes - Page 38

• Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.

  Bell Hooks

  Feminism, Oppression, Silent

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.18, Routledge

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• In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a Christian must also be a a nonconformist. Any Christian who blindly accepts the opinions of the majority and in fear and timidity follows a path of expediency and social approval is a mental and spiritual slave.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Spiritual, Men

  "Strength to Love". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr. , Ch. 2, 1963.

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• What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected by a very small group of politically active people. A minority of the people... then elects one of these hand picked people to rule itself and the majority.

  Robert Ringer

  Hands, Two, People

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

  Napoleon Hill

  People, Needs, Opinion

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.132, Penguin

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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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• The great majority of the Christian world is still weeping at the foot of the cross. The consciousness of man is fixed on the Christ Who died, not the Christ Who LIVES. They are looking back to the Redeemer Who was, not the redeemer who IS.

  John G. Lake

  Christian, Men, Feet

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• The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.

  Jay Samit

  Opportunity, People, Risk

  Twitter post from Sep 14, 2015

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• All that is needed for the majority of labors to go well is a healthy, pregnant woman who has loving support in labor, self-confidence , and attendants with infinite patience.

  Sheila Kitzinger

  Self Confidence, Support, Healthy

  Sheila Kitzinger (1991). “Homebirth: The Essential Guide to Giving Birth Outside of the Hospital”, Dk Pub

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• I am disturbed when I see the majority of so-called Christians having such little understanding of the real nature of the faith they profess. Faith is a subject of such importance that we should not ignore it because of the distractions or the hectic pace of our lives.

  William Wilberforce

  Christian, Real, Understanding

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• Even before winning its majority, Harper's Republican-styl e Conservative party - well to the right Canada's traditional Progressive Conservative Party - managed to win minority governments with less than 40 per cent of the popular vote.

  Linda McQuaig

  Party, Winning, Popular Vote

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

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Persuasion, Conviction

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.52

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• If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

  Napoleon Hill

  Persistence, Men, Creating

  Napoleon Hill (2012). “Napoleon Hill Collection”, p.80, Penguin

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• In business, as in politics, it is never easy to go against the beliefs and attitudes held by the majority. The businessman who moves counter to the tide of prevailing opinion must expect to be obstructed, derided and damned.

  J. Paul Getty

  Attitude, Moving, Tides

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• How does a weaker minority dominate a physically superior majority? In my research I learned that this is accomplished by destroying the slave’s mind. More effective than whips and guns was the simple act of outlawing the teaching of slaves to read and to write.

  Kyle Baker

  Teaching, Writing, Gun

  Kyle Baker (2015). “Nat Turner”, p.7, Abrams

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• The rest-the vast majority, tens of thousands of days-are unremarkable, repetitive, even monotonous. We glide through them then instantly forget them. We tend not to think about this arithmetic when we look back on our lives. We remember the handful of Big Days and throw away the rest.
  We organize our long, shapeless lives into tidy little stories...But our lives are mostly made up of junk, of ordinary, forgettable days, and 'The End' is never the end.

  William Landay

  Thinking, Long, Looks

  William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.381, Delacorte Press

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• It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

  Edward St Aubyn

  Believe, People, Dying

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

  Russell Brand

  People, Apathy, Addresses

  "Russell Brand takes on the crisis of civilisation. But what now?" by Nafeez Ahmed, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2013.

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• I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Growing Up, Ukulele, Play

  "The Rock: 'THAT is what I'm cooking'". Interview With Stuart Heritage, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2012.

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• The meanest inhabitants by their constant attendance generally form the majority and outvote the gentlemen, merchants and all the better Inhabitants!

  William Shirley

  Gentleman, Attendance, Revolution

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• The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

  Aldous Huxley

  Logic, Reason, Teach

  Aldous Huxley (1932). “Rotunda: a selection from the works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Once upon a time supporters of the Steinitz-Tarrasch school had a very high opinion of a queen-side pawn majority. Modern strategy on the other hand categorically denies that such a majority is an independent factor of any importance.

  Alexander Kotov

  Queens, School, Independent

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• Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in the whole world as possessing a claim to obedience except the authority of the State. The majority of people in Europe obey nothing else.

  Simone Weil

  Men, Europe, People

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• Having plead guilty, I do not believe that I am any different than the vast majority of the members of Congress.

  Dan Rostenkowski

  Stupid, Humorous, Believe

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• The Houthi have local religious grievances, being Shiites in a majority Sunni land. But they are also agents of Shiite Iran, which arms, trains, and advises them. Their slogan - 'God is great. Death to America. Death to Israel' - could have been written in Persian.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Religious, Israel, Iran

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• Were anyone wondering how Sen. Harry Reid intended to manage life in the minority, it took one day of the 114th Congress to get the answer: Exactly as he did in the majority. Republicans would be wise to understand what he's up to.

  Kimberley Strassel

  Wise, One Day, Would Be

  "Closing Down Harry Reid's Circus" by Kimberley Strassel, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 9, 2015.

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