Majority Quotes - Page 9

• To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Food, Men

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “What is Art?”, p.156, Leo Tolstoy

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• The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Freedom, Voice, Libertarian Party

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and Modern" edited by Tryon Edwards, (p. 324), 1891.

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• the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Law, Majority Rule

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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• It's a good idea not to major in minor things.

  Tony Robbins

  Ideas, Minor Things, Minors

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• The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it.

  Vince Gill

  Song, Funny Things, People

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• A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

  James Madison

  Respect, Rights, Minorities

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.

  Norman Granz

  Thinking, Long, People

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• The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

  Flann O'Brien

  Jobs, Politician, Crossroads

  Flann O'Brien (1989). “The Hair of the Dogma: A Further Selection from 'Cruiskeen Lawn'”

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• Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business.

  Bill Shuster

  Leadership, Majority Leader, People

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• Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.

  Chris Ware

  Book, Reading, Kids

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 31, 2003.

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• The vast majority of Americans agree with us. We're doing everything that we can. We're advertising, right now we're on television with an advertisement running in the Washington area. We've got newspaper ads.

  Michael D. Barnes

  Running, Television, Advertising

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• On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.

  Nathan Deal

  Country, Israel, Japan

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• Certainly in the modern age where everything is glossed over, when somebody speaks their mind, the majority of the public go, I'd love to have said that.

  Pete Waterman

  Mind, Age, Speak

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• So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Long, Honor

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• I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority

  Henrik Ibsen

  Mass, Subjects, I Can

  Henrik Ibsen (2016). “An Enemy of the People”, p.85, Henrik Ibsen

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• The mind of the many is not the mind of God.

  George MacDonald

  Mind

  George MacDonald (2015). “George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection - 8 Novels & 30+ Short Stories and Fairy Tales (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, Phantastes, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, Portent, The Lost Princess, Adela Cathcart, Dealings with the Fairies and many more”, p.1346, e-artnow

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• The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Marriage, Smart, Men

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• I am the very model of a modern Major-General, I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Kings, Military, Fighting

  The Pirates of Penzance act 1 (1879)

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• And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in the majority of the society? Will it be in the minority? Or in an individual of that minority?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Son, Men, Democracy

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.261, Hackett Publishing

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• Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Law, Democracy

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

  Herbert Croly

  Believe, Literature, Chance

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.20, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Independent, Lucky, Film

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• Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.

  Peter DeFazio

  Tired, Iraq, Terrorist

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• How many times will this Congress waste time on an issue that a majority of Americans do not want?

  Raul Grijalva

  Issues, Want, Waste

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