Majority Quotes - Page 8

• If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

  James Madison

  Patriotic, Liberty, Citizens

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• In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Organization, Political, Politics

  The Guardian, July 28, 1989.

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• In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Political, United States, Use

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1840). “Democracy in America”, p.18

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• The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.

  Gijs de Vries

  Believe, Islam, Democracy

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• There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

  Bertrand Russell

  Knowledge And Power, Government, Adequate

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• Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Success, Time, Philosophical

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• The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.

  Leonard Peikoff

  Men, Ideas, Eras

  Leonard Peikoff (1983). “Ominous Parallels”, p.179, Penguin

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• You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Army, Intelligent, Government

  Guy de Maupassant (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Guy de Maupassant (Illustrated)”, p.1129, Delphi Classics

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• In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

  Aristotle

  Power, Democracies Have, Democracy

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• I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Thinking, Sick, Looks

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• The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it's because we're afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we're alone. We're not.

  Glenn Beck

  America, Doe, Minorities

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• The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.

  John C. Calhoun

  Government, People, Interest

  John C. Calhoun “The Works of John C. Calhoun Volume 2”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Power, Republic

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• One with the law is a majority.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Law

  Speech accepting Republican vice-presidential nomination, Northampton, Mass., 27 July 1920

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• Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

  Jefferson Davis

  Majority Rule, Political, Events

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• Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

  Larry Flynt

  Sheep, Rights, Government

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

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• Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.

  Milton Friedman

  Investing, Columbus, Free Market

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• The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.91, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

  Jesse Jackson

  Freedom, Political, Democracy

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• All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Patriotic, Equality

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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• Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

  Helen Keller

  Respect, Appreciation, Struggle

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.

  Dean Koontz

  Literature, Dean, Charismatic

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.85, Bantam

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• The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

  Harper Lee

  Honesty, Powerful, Integrity

  To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 11 (1960)

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• It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Politics, Might, Constitution

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• Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

  Mitt Romney

  Marriage, Gay, Wish

  Preserving traditional marriage: a view from the states : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, June 22, 2004.

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