Top 1200 Majority Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Desperate courage makes One a majority.

The minority yields to the majority!

Society never progresses because the majority one day wakes up and says, “Let’s do things differently.” The majority didn’t wake up and say, “Oh, let’s just free the slaves.” ... Society always progressed because a relatively small group of people — usually considered outrageous radicals by the status quo of their time — had a better idea and articulated another way. That’s simply how evolution works; it’s the mutation — the member of the species who does things differently - that points the way to the future because they’re better adapted for survival.

The majority is always sane.

Piracy is the majority of the Internet.

People that I know, the vast majority, who are successful work really, really hard. Sure, there's some people that either get lucky or inherited it or don't have to work hard for some reason, but the vast majority who are successful work really, really hard.

The terrible tyranny of the majority.

One with the law is a majority.

Truth is not determined by majority vote.

I'd say we represent the silent majority.

One must not mistake majority for truth.

I am a majority of one.

The majority of my work is about preparation.

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

The majority of life on Earth is microbial

One man with courage is a majority.

The majority of people do not accept my choices.

Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.

The majority can never replace the man

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote. They will then be the only slaves. Only his vote can hasten the abolition of slavery who asserts his own freedom by his vote.

The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.

It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.

A majority can do anything.

One is a majority if he is right.

The majority is wicked.

That Republicans now control the Senate means, of course, that they control the confirmation process. Their majority enables them to stop an unacceptable nomination at various points: They can deny the nominee a committee hearing; they can vote the person down in committee; they can refuse to schedule a vote on a nomination sent to the floor; and the full Senate can vote to reject the nomination. The Republicans' majority status also strengthens their negotiating position with the White House, making it more likely that a mutually acceptable candidate will be chosen for a given seat.

40, 50 years ago, Americans - the majority of Americans did not want to accept these Vietnamese refugees who they saw as completely foreign. Now there are new foreigners - Syrians and other people from the Middle East, people of Muslim backgrounds. And the sense among many Americans is, well, these people are completely different from us, and they're not like the Vietnamese who are much more assimilable. And I think that's very, very doubtful. I think that the majority of these new foreigners, if given the opportunity, will be able to assimilate and deal with American culture.

The majority of my blood is Asian.

One and God make a majority.

I spend the majority of my life not acting.

The right of the majority is absolute.

The man with courage is a majority.

The minority must bow to the majority.

He has gone over to the majority.

The White Majority is the Problem

The majority never has right on its side.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

Was there ever a time when the majority was right?

The purpose of the minority is to become the majority.

The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

Supreme power rests in the will of all or of the majority.

I have a majority girl audience on YouTube.

I have read a great deal about what animals dream, but none of it has ever really satisfied me. I believe they dream exactly the way we dream, and about everything in their lives--that they have good dreams and bad dreams in almost direct proportion, as we do, to whether their lives have been more good than bad. Unfortunately, because the majority of animals have it so much tougher than we do, I believe that the majority of dreams, except in the most fortunate petdom, are bad.

One with God is a majority.

The laughers are a majority.

As for our majority... one is enough.

In economics, the majority is always wrong.

Truth is not arrived at by majority vote.

In ability choice education finance majorities people understanding voting A lot of voters always cast their ballot for the candidate who seems to them to be one of the people. That means he must have the same superstitions, the same unbalanced prejudices, and the same lack of understanding of public finances that are characteristic of the majority. A better choice would be a candidate who has a closer understanding and a better education than the majority. Too much voting is based on affability rather than on ability.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

I suppress the vast majority of what I write.

The great silent majority.

One on God's side is a majority.

Justice, not the majority, should rule.

Al-Hallaj has a special destiny. He came at a time when worldliness, the luxury, were inundating the Islamic world. His function was to act as kind of an antithesis to this, and he paid for it with his life, and he was very happy to do so. He smiled as he went to the executioner. That was done because it shook the conscience of the Islamic peoples of that time. But the vast majority, the vast, vast, vast majority of Sufis, they have not met the destiny of al-Hallaj. They have spoken about reaching "the Truth" and there is nothing dangerous about it.

Of course you can more easily recognise the outsiders because they have a different skin color. But let us take for instance the relationship between the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant majority in America and the negroes. What is important here is that the negroes were the descendants from slaves and were excluded from power, while the white majority kept them at bay, kept them down, kept them where they are. If the negroes in the future became assimilated and acquired equal power access, if there were a black president, then many of these things would change.

The majority of business people are sheeple.

The majority of my family is in Jersey.

A man with God is always in the majority.