Majority Quotes

• One is a majority if he is right.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Ifs

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• I think it's probably much easier to do political comedy from a two-party point of view, in that the majority have some sense of what it means to be one or the other.

  Doug Stanhope

  Party, Mean, Thinking

  "Doug Stanhope on Alcohol, Politics and Killing Comedy Bootleggers’ Families". Interview with Joel Warner, Peter Mcgraw, www.wired.com. November 6, 2012.

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• The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Wise, Wisdom, Opposites

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• A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

  Rick Warren

  Lying, Evil, Accepted

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Aug 09, 2012

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• Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Perfect, Gentleman, Mammals

  "Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati". Book by Robert Anton Wilson, p. 84, 1977.

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• You can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

  Larry Flynt

  Niece, Sheep, Majority Rule

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• The man with courage is a majority.

  Andrew Young

  Courage, Men, He Man

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

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Stronger, Minorities, Opinion

  "The Diary of Soren Kierkegaard" by Soren Kierkegaard, pt. 5, sct. 3, no 128, 1850.

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• Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Country, Pride, Gay

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2360, Delphi Classics

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• There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Politics, Wonderful, Economy

  The Guardian, July 28, 1989.

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• Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

  Edward Young

  Life, Sympathy, Death

  The Revenge act 4 (1721) See Nixon 10; Petronius 2

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• The majority never has right on its side.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Sides

  An Enemy of the People act 4 (1882)

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• The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

  Gore Vidal

  Government, Class, People

  "Matters of Fact and Fiction: Essays 1973 - 1976". Book by Gore Vidal (p. 280), 1978.

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• ...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

  Harper Lee

  Integrity, Tkam, Killing Others

  Christopher Sergel, Harper Lee (1995). “The Play of To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Heinemann

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• It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Democracy, Principles

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.363, Cambridge University Press

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• Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as right in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as brute force.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Community, Together

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed. Except in the sacred tests of democracy and in the incantations of the orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force.

  Walter Lippmann

  War, Army, Blood

  Walter Lippmann (2003). “Men of Destiny (Ppr)”, p.58, Transaction Publishers

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• 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.

  Jai Rodriguez

  Gay, Guy, Done

  "THE LEADING MEN: Angel of Music". Interview with Wayman Wong, www.playbill.com. August 2, 2004.

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• Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.

  Chaka Fattah

  Blame Someone, Want, Republican

  "CNN Crossfire", www.cnn.com. February 8, 2005.

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• One on God's side is a majority.

  Wendell Phillips

  God, Sides

  Speech on John Brown, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1 Nov. 1859 See Coolidge 2; Douglass 7; Andrew Jackson 7; John Knox 1; Thoreau 9

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

  Richard Adams

  Thinking, Years, Veterinarian

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• Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.

  King Hussein I

  Believe, Reality, People

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• A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Country, People

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• The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Soil, Bread

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890). “Ordination Addresses and Counsels to Clergy”

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• The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that welfare is killing them.

  Pauline Hanson

  Want, Welfare, Killing

  "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.

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