Majority Quotes - Page 3

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.

Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will of a majority; a form of government, as in all other unlimited ones, in which injustice, violence, and force must ultimately prevail.

Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles.

The majority of players are looking for reasons to fold. I am looking for reasons to play.

What the majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis, it is not what you do for you children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.

I certainly think that 10 to 20 years from now, clearly the majority of veterinarians will be women.

The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.

I had to come from something, come from a place that was negative and positive but the majority of it is a negative place.

My resolution, standing with the vast majority of Americans who know we can and must be safer, is to cede no ground to those who would convince us the path is too steep, or we too weak.

The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.

There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker John Boehner.

I consider that a most ignoble endeavor. The only way I would like to 'help' the great majority of people is the same way Carl Panzram 'reformed' people who tried to reform him. It would be most merciful to help them by relieving them of the life they seem to hate so much. People should be happy I'm not a humanitarian-or I'd probably be the most diabolical mass murderer the world has ever known.

I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

A community is only a community when the majority of its members are making the transition from 'the community for myself' to 'myself for the community'.

We now have a global community that calculates how to maximize the benefits for a few at the expense of the majority.

The truth is that only 1% of all new words are totally new, and of those an even smaller percentage are conjured up out of thin air. The vast majority of coinages are the product of some kind of repurposing, and the result has always been a mix of tradition and innovation.

I devote my life to the rebirth of the Jewish State, with a Jewish majority, on both sides of the Jordan.

The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.

Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying "Enough!" He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable - this is Marcos.

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs.

A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.

The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

We're the richest economy in the history of the world. For the majority of Americans not to get the benefits of this extraordinarily prosperous economy, there's something fundamentally wrong.