Quotes About Majority

I thought of Britain as a moderate place. Britain isn't a place of majority madness, we're not like that.

What we call laws or rights are just arbitrary preferences enforced by violence, in just the same way that "a dog will fight for his bone."69 A constitution is simply an effort to render that process less violent by subjecting the inevitable clashes to majority vote instead of battle. But in the end, politics is just war by other means.

It says something about the mood of the time that a New Labour government with an overwhelming parliamentary majority and nearly 11 million voters at the 2001 elections should nonetheless have been moved to respond in this way to the propaganda of a neo-Fascist clique which attracted the support of just 48,000 electors in the country at large: one-fifth of 1 percent of the vote and only 40,000 more votes than the Monster Raving Loony Party. France

This makes it much easier to institute radical departures in public policy. In complex or divided societies, the chances are that a minority—or even a majority—will be forced to concede, often against its will. This makes collective policymaking contentious and favors a minimalist approach to social reform: better to do nothing than to divide people for and against a controversial project.

We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.

It was found in practice that when the examinations were conducted in a spirit which led up to conclusions which were bits of advice, often no action was taken; whereas by leaving it to spontaneity in the individual and to his own sense of responsibility, action is taken in the overwhelming majority of cases.

The emptiness of mere majority calculus deprives legality of all persuasive power.

In general, it would be a peculiar type of 'justice' to declare a majority all the better and more just the more overwhelming it is, and to maintain abstractly that ninety-eight people abusing two persons is by far not so unjust as fifty-one people mistreating forty-nine. At this point, pure mathematics becomes simple inhumanity.

Timidity is the root of prudence in the majority of men.

Out of the whole multitude of prudent men in the world, the great majority are so from timidity.

Wer der Norm entspricht, kann dem Irrturm erliegen, dass es sie nicht gibt. Wer der Mehrheit ähnelt, kann dem Irrturm erliegen, dass die Ebenbildlichkeit mit der die Norm setzenden Mehrheit keine Rolle spielt. Wer der Norm entspricht, dem oder der fällt oft nicht auf, wie sie anderer ausgrenzt oder degradiert. Wer der Norm entspricht, kann sich oft ihre Wirkung nicht vorstellen, weil die eigene Akzeptanz als selbstverständlich angenommen wird.

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion.

As my father once explained to me, our "rights" are only as strong as the democracy that protects them. Because we are a people's democracy here in America, as great as the people of this country can be, but also as fallible, we must stay ever vigilant in the face of any "tyranny" of the majority, no matter the stated objective.

One with the law is a majority.

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

How a minority, Reaching majority, Seizing authority, Hates a minority!

The thing we have to fear in this country, to my way of thinking, is the influence of the organized minorities, because somehow or other the great majority does not seem to organize. They seem to feel that they are going to be effective because of their own strength, but they give no expression of it.

Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

The main task of a free society is to civilize the struggle for power. Slavery of the acquiescent majority to the ruthless few is the hereditary state of mankind; freedom, a rarely acquired characteristic.

The multitude is always in the wrong.

If you always depend on laws of the majority to tell you what is wrong then you are risking your own happiness and morality.

I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.

I think it's probably much easier to do political comedy from a two-party point of view, in that the majority have some sense of what it means to be one or the other.