Majority Quotes - Page 16

The laughers are a majority.

We want all the Palestinians back in their homeland, and then there can be a fair referendum for people to choose the form of state they want. Whoever gets the majority can rule.

Civilisation 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 stand in awe.

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

One on God's side is a majority.

It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

Truth is never determined by majority opinion, but by divine revelation.

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.

The Democrats were in the majority in the U.S. Senate when we voted for the Iraq war and passed the U.S. Patriot Act. It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.

But the majority of things that one could get stressed about, they?re not worth getting stressed about.

But 85 percent of the mosques have extremist leadership in this country. Most Muslims, the overwhelming majority of Muslims, are loyal Americans.

Truth is not arrived at by majority vote.

At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.

There's a rising level of frustration with the disconnect between where the vast majority of conservatives are in this country and how Congress is behaving. There's going to be a wake-up call sooner or later.

But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.

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

The majority of people do not accept my choices.

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

If the majority culture know so little about us, it must be our problem, they seem to be telling us; the burden of teaching is on us.

Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline.

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the majority of the American people.

The majority of American states had laws by the 1930s that allowed for forced sterilization of socially undesirable categories of people, so-called feeble-minded, for example, and with Hitler culminating in genocide.