Majority Quotes - Page 21

Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.

The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.

The study of eugenics had its beginning in Germany, sometime after the mid-19th century mark, stimulated by volkish concerns for Aryan racial purity. Rudolf Virchow, pathologist and politician, began a study of national ethnic statistics in 1871, convinced that the majority of Germans would prove to be of relatively pure Nordic descent. The results of his studies proved otherwise. According to Virchow, the obvious solution was to set about Nordicizing the debased German stock.

The two majority candidates right now, the Democratic and Republican candidates,[Donald] Trump and [Hillary] Clinton, are the most disliked and untrusted Presidential candidates in our history with more than majority disapproval.

Once you get married, women are still implicitly expected to do the majority of the housework and take care of any future children.

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.

The smaller the society, the fewer probably will be the distinct parties and interests composing it; the fewer the distinct parties and interests, the more frequently will a majority be found of the same party; . . . the more easily will they concert and execute their plans of oppression.

Good is the enemy of great.. The vast majority of good companies remain just that - good, but not great.

I've done the gay, over-the-top guy. I want to jump into another show where I wear pants for the majority of the time.

The majority of great men are the offspring of unhappy marriages.

A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

The majority of casino players leave too much to chance when playing in a casino. To put it bluntly, they don't have a clue as to how to play.

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

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

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority

A majority of the crime in the downtown is property crime. There have been a few larcenies and burglaries, but robberies and assaults are not common in the downtown. There isn't usually any violent crime.

Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.

The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

Gloria Steinem in the women's movement. Eleanor Smeal of the Feminist Majority. There are all of these great wonderful women I've met that are so inspirational.

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