Majority Quotes - Page 6

• By the reduction of the Arabs on the one hand and Jewish immigration in the transition period on the other, we will ensure an absolute Hebrew majority in a parliamentary regime.

  Moshe Sharett

  Hands, Immigration, Transition

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• The majority of surveys throughout this Nation show that the American people are advocating for a comprehensive and realistic approach to immigration reform.

  Raul Grijalva

  People, Immigration, Reform

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• I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.

  Stephen Malkmus

  America, People, Musician

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• It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

  Moshe Dayan

  Decision, Democracy, Accepting

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• The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights-that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Selfish, Rights

  Radio broadcast, March 2, 1930.

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• Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Race, White, Today

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• The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.

  Joe Baca

  Hurt, Legal System, Republican

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• In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.

  James S. Coleman

  School, Average, Achievement

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• In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.

  Claudio Hummes

  Viruses, Hiv, Facts

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• When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.

  Brad Paisley

  Thinking, Awards, Should Have

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The violent radicals do not legitimately represent the overwhelming majority of the world's Muslims.

  Gijs de Vries

  World, Violent, Radical

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• By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.

  Sheila Jackson Lee

  Records, Republican

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• 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.

  Ann Landers

  Children, Successful, Finals

  Ann Landers (1982). “Ann Landers says: truth is stranger ...”, Prentice Hall

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• A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Population, Earth

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.25

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• We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Attitude, Posture, Submit

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2692, Delphi Classics

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• History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Being Alone, Creativity, People

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• In economics, the majority is always wrong.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Inspirational, Investing, Economics

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1969). “Ambassador's Journal”

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• A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.

  Eric Hoffer

  Liberty, Minorities, Dissent

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1973.

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• Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Workout, Truth, Inspiration

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

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• The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Life, Courage, Bullying

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• One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

  Thomas Reed

  Fear, Humorous, Atheism

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• What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

  Walter Lippmann

  Hymns, Minorities, Purpose

  Walter Lippmann (2003). “Men of Destiny (Ppr)”, p.56, Transaction Publishers

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• Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things .... it's not only worth dying for; it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Majority Rule, Cynical, Democracy

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.207, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.

  John Boehner

  Lying, Opportunity, Use

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• It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

  Giordano Bruno

  Change, Truth, Freedom

  "Life and Teachings of Giordano Bruno: Philosopher, Martyr, Mystic 1548 - 1600". Book by Coulson Turnbull, 1913.

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