Majority Quotes - Page 7

• Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

  Giordano Bruno

  Truth, People, Doe

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

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• We in the majority have worked hard to empower people to create opportunities, to make jobs, to do things that turn America into a place where people can achieve their dreams.

  Robin Hayes

  Dream, Jobs, Opportunity

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• If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Democracy, Minorities, Duty

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.592

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• Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

  Martin Van Creveld

  War, People, Desert

  Martin Van Creveld (2009). “Transformation of War”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.

  Albert Gallatin

  Gun, Rights, People

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• The majority of the American people still believe that every single individual in this country is entitled to just as much respect, just as much dignity, as every other individual.

  Barbara Jordan

  Country, Believe, People

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• A majority is always better than the best repartee.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Politics, Politician

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5018, Delphi Classics

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• The gulf coast region has been hit hard by two major hurricanes and is going to need federal assistance at several levels, The best way to make sure that the resources are targeted properly is for us to see this area firsthand. I am pleased that members from both sides of the aisle share my commitment to making sure that the relief effort is targeted and managed as efficiently as possible.

  Bob Goodlatte

  Commitment, Two, Effort

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• You don't need a major label and they sure don't need you.

  Alan Light

  Needs, Labels, Don't Need You

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• I believe that if the silent majority were to protest against those who believe in irrational blind faith - who want to go backwards instead of forward, who are for tradition not innovation, who oppose individualism and plurality of thought - then the world would become a truly civilized world in which to live.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Believe, Innovation, World

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• No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

  Livy

  Law, Convenience, Satisfied

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXXIV, section 3,

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• A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, Justice, Desire

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.44

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• Justice, not the majority, should rule.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Justice, Should

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• The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

  Lord Acton

  Party, Democracies Have, Majority Rule

  John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.103, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Umpires, Too Much, Causes

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  The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Time, Mean, Blood

  Speech to the Budget Commission of the Prussian Diet, September 30, 1862.

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• If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Nature, Different, Merit

  Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.66, Variocity

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• 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.

  William Jennings Bryan

  One Day, Minorities

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  In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

  Edmund Burke

  Freedom, Exercise, Democracy

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.186

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• Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.

  John Deacon

  Writing, Brian, Materials

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• As for our majority... one is enough.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Politics, Enough

  "Endymion". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Ch. 64, 1880.

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• The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.

  Will Durant

  Political, Acting, Triumph

  Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

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• What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Friday, Agreement, Years

  Queen Elizabeth II's Dublin Castle Speech, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 18, 2011.

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• There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Love, Political, Dollars

  The Guardian, May 23, 1992.

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• It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

  G. H. Hardy

  Knowledge, Intelligent, Men

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