Majority Quotes - Page 23

The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.

Democracy, or "majority rules," is another trick of our society to force us to do things we don't want to do. Even if we actually lived in a pure democracy (and the system we do live in is not even close), where everyone got a single vote on every subject, forcing the minority to obey the majority is no different to one man, if he had the power, forcing everyone else to do what he wanted them to-simply because he could.

George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States. He was appointed by God.

Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.

Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.

It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority’s falsehood as truth, could be fatal.

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

Large enterprises make the few rich, but the majority prosper only through the carefulness and detail of thrift.

After working for TV, you realise that the majority of the population still wonders where their next meal is coming from.

Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.

The human condition for the vast majority of people on this planet for the entire time of what humanity has been here has been bondage and tyranny, dictatorship, pestilence. That's really what American exceptionalism is, when you get right down to it.

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work

Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.

The majority of people mistakenly feel like they don't need a live musical experience.

The vast majority of my time is traveling and talking about the issues. It isn't really calling and asking for money.

The most important attribute for success in value investing is patience, patience, and more patience. The majority of investors do not possess this characteristic.

I don't believe the majority always knows what's best for everyone.

I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.

The country was founded on the principle that primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains.

A fatal defect in majority rule is that by its very nature it abolishes itself. Majority rule must inevitably become minority rule: the majority is too big to handle itself; it organizes itself into committees ... which in their turn resolve themselves into a committee of one.

Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.

People tend to have a government that reflects the level of consciousness of the majority of people who voted.

The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.