Majority Quotes - Page 2

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery.

None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.

I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority... in less than 20 years.

The parliamentary principle of decision by majorities only appears during quite short periods of history, and those are always periods of decadence in nations and States.

The ordinary Christian with the Bible in his hand can say that the majority is wrong.

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.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

‎Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against "society," that is, against the majority subdued and hypnotized by the State and State worship.

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

The future is our responsibility, but change will not take place until the majority loose confidence in their dictator’s and elected officials’ ability to solve problems. It will likely take an economic catastrophe resulting in enormous human suffering to bring about true social change.

While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.

Un homme avec Dieu est toujours dans la majorite . One man with God is always a majority.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country.