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Quotes About Majority

A collection of errors does not make a truth: quality cannot stem from quantity – a value is not a weight. The reasons of the majority cannot be taken as good reasons .
~ Alain de Benoist
The majority of philosophers are totally humorless. That's part of their trouble.
~ Bernard Williams
Piracy is the majority of the Internet.
~ Peter Sunde
It turned out that all socio-political forces - namely the United Development Party, Indonesian Democratic Party, Functional Group, and ABRI factions - said the majority of people still wanted me to accept the renomination for the 1998-2003 term. Well, that being the case, I was ready to accept their renomination with a sense of responsibility.
~ Suharto
If I were somebody who spent the majority of my time saying things that were harsh and difficult to hear, I would want my visual aesthetic to be something soft and feminine, warm and easy to be around.
~ Kerry Washington
As recently as the September 11 event, the majority of Muslims were, as the rest of the world was, against its violence. However, if despair and humiliation continue in the population of more than one billion Muslims, the world will face increasing risks of conflicts and wars.
~ Ahmed Zewail
These acts represent an inhuman extremism which threatens Muslims and non-Muslims alike and is rejected by a vast majority of Muslims in India and elsewhere.
~ Rajmohan Gandhi
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
~ Ralph W. Sockman
Liberty is always destroyed by the multitude, in the name of liberty.
~ Raphael Semmes
Alpha politicians, stupid majority, and poverty of all types go together.
~ Ravindra Pasale
The terrible tyranny of the majority.
~ Ray Bradbury
The majority of loyalist émigrés from the North went to Canada. Three-quarters of these arrived in Nova Scotia, which at that time included all the maritime provinces.
~ Ray Raphael
The Liberal Party of Canada has demonstrated that it is hell bent on winning their majority at almost any cost.
~ Annamie Paul
In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.
~ Robert W. Welch, Jr.
Modi made history in 2014 by becoming the first non-Congress government at the Centre to get absolute majority.
~ N. Chandrababu Naidu
I was part of the peace movement and part of the civil rights movement. You know what we heard? 'The majority of people don't support you.'
~ Ron Dellums
I'm actually a big supporter of the majority of the guys from The Nexus.
~ Wade Barrett
Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
~ Rand Paul
Installing an activist liberal majority on the Supreme Court will put religious liberties at risk for generations to come.
~ Mercedes Schlapp
But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
~ Pat Robertson
We live in what is called a democracy, rule by the majority of the people. A fine ideal if it could be made to work. The people elect, but the party machines nominate, and the party machines to be effective must spend a great deal of money. Somebody has to give it to them, and that somebody, whether it be an individual, a financial group, a trade union or what have you, expects some consideration in return.
~ Raymond Chandler
We live in what is called a democracy, rule by the majority of the people. A fine ideal if it could be made to work. The people elect but the party machines nominate, and the party machines to be effective must spend a great deal of money. Somebody had to give it to them, and that somebody, whether it be an individual, a financial group, a trade union, or what have you, expects some consideration in return.
~ Raymond Chandler
The word adult implies that all the people who've attained legal majority make up a coherent category, but we are travelers who change and traverse a changing country as we go.
~ Rebecca Solnit
At large in disaster are two populations: a great majority that tends toward altruism and mutual aid and a minority whose callousness and self-interest often become a second disaster.
~ Rebecca Solnit