Majority Quotes
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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph W. Sockman
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain
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For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are
Niccolo Machiavelli
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In economics, the majority is always wrong.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Subject: Economics Quotes :: Majority QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Honore de Balzac
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The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
Friedrich von Schiller
Subject: Justice Quotes :: Majority QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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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
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The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former.
Alfred A. Montapert
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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
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That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world
John Adams
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It is a decision that will bring hope to millions of Americans. I know there`s still a long ways to go with the legislation, but a large step has been taken by the majority leader today ... and I admire the majority leader for doing it.
Harry Reid
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It is a decision that will bring hope to millions of Americans. I know there`s still a long ways to go with the legislation, but a large step has been taken by the majority leader today ... and I admire the majority leader for doing it.
Harry Reid
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All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate ...
Thomas Jefferson
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Aristotle
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Desperate courage makes One a majority.
Andrew Jackson
Subject: Conviction Quotes :: Courage Quotes :: Democracy Quotes :: Majority Quotes :: Minority QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution
Abraham Lincoln
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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the...
Ayn Rand
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Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will
Winston Churchill
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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
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One with the law is a majority.
Calvin Coolidge
Subject: Law and Lawyers Quotes :: Majority QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible
Bertrand Russell
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There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Bertrand Russell
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
Gore Vidal
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That`s what`s wonderful about actors sometimes, is that`s who we watch on the screen... Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they`re all locked...
Danny Boyle
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I didn`t go to acting school, only to normal school. I`m not for acting schools because I suspect that the majority of the teachers are there because they can`t find work as actors or because they think they can teach people to act but haven`t had much ex...
Oliver Reed
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I`ve found that the majority of my work is just a series of grunting, groaning and straining noises. Because, you know, Superman is forever getting clobbered with force fields, nuclear weapons, trains -- whatever large, blunt, heavy objects are at hand to...
Timothy Daly
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The overwhelming majority of people who make up the liberal and progressive groups of this country believe in democracy, and NOT in communism. We believe that the two cannot be reconciled here in the United States, and we believe that every effort should ...
Olivia De Havilland
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I try my hardest not to have any plans. It drives the people in my life crazy. But I try to spend the majority of my time back home.
Josh Hartnett
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You can set up whatever negotiations or structure you want, but until the Palestinians are willing to accept the fact, as the majority of Israelis do, that there should be two states between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, we won`t have peace.
Charles Schumer
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