Majority Quotes

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

And the Arabs are the biggest owners now of media in the United States, okay, and over stock exchanges. And in many major U.S. cities they’re the majority owners.

I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority.

The majority should not be punished and subjected to a licensing curfew because of the bad behavior of the minority.

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.

If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

The World War demonstrated the importance of Field Artillery. The majority of casualties were inflicted by the arm.

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.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

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.

Watch what everyone else does--do the opposite. The majority is always wrong.

The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that welfare is killing them.

Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip.

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

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.