Majority Quotes - Page 17

• Capitalism has created a situation called scarcity. And that scarcity is not natural, it's socially induced. Along with that sense of scarcity, or feeling of scarcity, is a feeling of economic insecurity. Along with that is a feeling of deprivation... And unless we can demonstrate that that feeling is not justified technologically, we will not be able to speak intelligently to the great majority of people and reorganize our economy so that we really know what needs are rational and human and what have been created, almost fetishisticaly, by the capitalist economy.

  Murray Bookchin

  Capitalist Economy, People, Feelings

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• I've been winning with 70 percent of the vote, and if you look at my district, you know it's a majority Christian district, and yet we've still been winning with high margins, so I don't feel like I've had any disadvantages for being a minority.

  Keith Ellison

  Christian, Winning, Looks

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• The real number of the US' obligations, unfunded obligations that we're passing on to our future generates is more like $70 trillion to $75 trillion. The vast majority of that is health entitlements - Medicare, Obamacare, Medicaid. There's also Social Security, interest on the debt. But fundamentally, health entitlements are the thing that will bankrupt our kids. We need to fix that for the long-term.

  Benjamin E. Sasse

  Real, Kids, Passing On

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Time is of the essence, particularly if we're sending images out on social media. The reality is that the majority of images are only viewed for a few seconds, often on a phone or computer. There are so many images freely available that it takes a lot of will power to concentrate and prolong the gaze on one picture at the expense of the thousands of others waiting to be viewed!

  Michael Kenna

  Reality, Media, Essence

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• The share of wealth held by the minority is much greater than the share held by the majority. We have to draw our own conclusions from that and it has to change.

  Martin Schulz

  Minorities, Wealth, Share

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• As a matter of fact the majority of the Muslims living in our society are moderate people. But don't make the mistake that even though there are moderate and radical Muslims that there is a moderate or a radical Islam.

  Geert Wilders

  Mistake, People, Islam

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• 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.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  Opportunity, Thinking, Years

  "'The Refugees' Author Says We Should All Know What It Is To Be An Outsider". Interview with Ari Shapiro, wbgo.org. February 10, 2017.

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• Since the beginning of the crisis, since the terrorists started to control some areas within Syria, the majority of the Syrian civilians left that areas to join the government areas, not vice versa. If the majority of the Syrians don't trust the government, they should go the other way.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Government, Vices, Way

  Source: www.globalresearch.ca

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• I've spent the majority of my life estranged from either one or both of my parents, and I've really had a lot of time to break down all the reasons why. There was something buried inside of me that said, I've got to kind of unravel the reasons why I don't talk to them; why not just one, but both of my parents and I have these really messed up relationships. And why I've been so fractured all these years. I got to the point where I thought, I was not the best kid. I openly admit that. But then I realized it doesn't matter. I was a kid!

  Jason Diamond

  Kids, Years, Parent

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People always like to have a good time and laugh, and, [among] the vast majority of the seven billion people on this earth, one thing that we all have in common is at some point we all need to pair up and find some sort of significant other, some sort of romantic counterpart.

  Jay Baruchel

  People, Laughing, Pairs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you're a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority... I refuse to do that.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  Writing, Temptation, Minorities

  "Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Viet Thanh Nguyen 'Never Stopped Being a Refugee'". Interview with Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2017.

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• Writers from the majority can assume their audiences know what they're talking about - they don't have to explain things, whereas minority writers are expected to.

  Nguyen Viet Thang

  Talking, Minorities, Assuming

  "Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Viet Thanh Nguyen 'Never Stopped Being a Refugee'". Interview with Kanyakrit Vongkiatkajorn, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2017.

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• Like morality, literature needs to be universal. So that the writer must put himself on the side of the majority, of the two billion starving, if he wishes to be able to speak to all and be read by all. Failing that, he is at the service of a privileged class and, like it, an exploiter.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Class, Two, Wish

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• The term "state socialism" is not precise. Under this term many understand an order under which a certain part of the wealth, sometimes a quite considerable part, passes into state ownership or under its control while in the great majority of cases the ownership of plants, factories, and land, remains in private hands.

  Joseph Stalin

  Hands, Order, Land

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• Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness.

  Amity Shlaes

  Law, Foundation, Justified

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• It doesn't matter who the candidates are. It doesn't matter the campaign. You know that's gonna happen. The Washington Post is gonna do it, the New York Times is gonna do it, the three networks gonna do it, CNN's gonna do it, MSNBC gonna do it, all the newspapers are gonna do it. For the vast majority of them. There are some exceptions. That sameness ends up being its own authority. If everywhere you look in the media tells you the same thing, you don't have to research.

  Rush Limbaugh

  New York, Media, Cnn

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Losing the PR battles, particularly about healthcare, translated into losing his Democratic majorities in Congress, beginning with a Republican landslide in the midterm election of 2010.

  Barack Obama

  Battle, Losing, Healthcare

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• In the first two years, when I had a strong majority in the House and the Senate, we were as productive as any administration has been since the '60s. I mean, we got a lot done.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Mean, Years

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• To sustain a governing majority, that requires an ability for Republicans and Democrats to find some common ground. And right now, the structure of the system is such where it makes it really hard for people to work together.

  Barack Obama

  People, Working Together, Common

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I think we've set the bar with respect to the notion that it is possible to provide health care for people. Now I know that the incoming Congress and administration talks about repealing it. But we've set a bar that shows that this can be done. And that core principle is one that the majority of Americans, including supporters of Donald Trump believe in.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I don't like what's going on in Iraq, naturally. I'm part of a large majority of people who don't, but I do not know the whole story. I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it's hard for me to discern. I don't like what it's doing to the world.

  Al Pacino

  Believe, Iraq, People

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• If [the Conservatives] lose, we say, "Okay, we gotta change. We gotta improve, come back and win the next election." They [leftists] don't. When they lose and even when they win, because they know that they're in a numerical minority. But that numerical minority is a vast majority of pop culture and education environments. And so they just bully their way.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Winning, Bully, Culture

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• [Radical leftist] are never been a majority. We just fell for one of the greatest illusions in modern politics.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Illusion, Modern, Radical

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We can't have close to 90 percent of those prenatally diagnosed with an intellectual disability being aborted; 90 percent not going to school; more than 90 percent reporting discrimination in the healthcare system; and 90 percent unemployed, and tell ourselves that we're doing a good job. The obstacles to leading a full life for the vast majority of people with intellectual disabilities are far beyond what they should be, and far beyond what we should tolerate. So yeah, I want change.

  Timothy Shriver

  Jobs, School, People

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• I don't think that the media is ever going to be on the same stage with Donald Trump. I don't think the majority of them are ever gonna be even in the same universe. They live in two separate worlds, and they don't understand Trump's, and they have contempt for it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Media, Two

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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