Majority Quotes - Page 4

• The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?

  Henrik Ibsen

  Freedom, Lying, Intelligent

  Henrik Ibsen, James McFarlane (1999). “An Enemy of the People ; The Wild Duck ; Rosmersholm”, p.76, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.

  Lytton Strachey

  Giving, Age, Peculiar

  Lytton Strachey (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Lytton Strachey (Illustrated)”, p.72, Delphi Classics

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• And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.

  Sharron Angle

  Government, Next, Bondage

  "Angle: “What’s happening (in America)..is a violation of the 1st Commandment,” entitlements “make government our God.”". Interview, lasvegassun.com. August 4, 2010.

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• That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

  Gamaliel Bailey

  Doubt, Preference, Stores

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• Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mediocrity, Way, Approved

  "Thoughts of Blaise Pascal".

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• But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Majority Rule, Justice

  Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

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• We cannot let a minority of people hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Minorities, Viewpoints

  "Hillary Clinton Equates Gun Control Opponents With Terrorists" by Jacob Sullum, reason.com. June 18, 2014.

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• It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Doe, Literature, Prove

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• I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.

  Paul Simon

  Jobs, Thinking, Done

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• The Green Party represents that majority point of view within the U.S.

  Peter Camejo

  Party, Views, Green

  "Raw Data: Foxnews.com Interviews Peter Camejo". Foxnews.com Interview, www.foxnews.com. February 17, 2004.

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• Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Government, Prejudice, Vulnerable

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• Its always the minorities who arent a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

  Rose Bird

  Minorities, Limits, Mainstream

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• Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work

  Robert Caro

  Majority Leader, United States, Made

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• Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Neighbor, Civil Disobedience

  Civil Disobedience (1849) See Coolidge 2; Douglass 7; Andrew Jackson 7; John Knox 1; Wendell Phillips 3

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• I’m like a twenty two year old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.

  John Fogerty

  Kids, Years, Break Through

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• What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  Country, Government, Oil

  "Fuel protests switch to Scandinavia". www.cnn.com. September 18, 2000.

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

  David Ogilvy

  Editors, Doe, May

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

  Howard Fineman

  Ideas, Noble, Vietnam

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• Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

  Diane Watson

  Halloween, Rights, Groups

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• A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Power, Minorities, Weight

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.11, Hayes Barton Press

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• We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Generations, May

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”

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• I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

  Steven Spielberg

  Awkward, Shy, Momentum

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• What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

  Desmond Tutu

  Empowerment, Black, Benefits

  "Tutu says Mbeki enriching few at expense of poor" by Andrew Meldrum, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2004.

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• The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Gentleman, Doe, Never Forget

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• If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.

  June Jordan

  Women, Political, Female

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