Quotes About Majority

I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.

They don't need the support of the majority. Sometimes all that's needed is a group of people loud enough and influential enough to to change the world and make it the way they want it to be. It doesn't even have to be a huge group, as long as some of them establish their own personal preferences as the only real truth and make enough noise to give the impression that the forgotten, neglected masses are behind them.

In a democracy, if you don't get the votes, nothing else is possible, no matter how wonderful your dreams.

Twitter needs to understand that just because they're the loudest, they're not the majority.

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

I think I'm in the majority of Americans. I believe that I am in the mainstream of middle America.

What does it mean to have a Republican majority in the House? A lot of people think 'So what?' They should think again.

I think the majority of the Liberian people want peace.

I want to tell Quebecers that are listening: if you want to get back to the goal of creating a country, only a majority government can do it, a sovereigntist government of the Parti Quebecois.

The majority of my audience has always been women.

In this way the socialists hope to win the day, not by convincing a majority of existing Americans but by creating a majority using new Americans who will overpower and subdue the native population.

if a yogi is so well blessed with karma to be one who can tread the pleasant path, one who can gain wisdom without undergoing pain, then he can work on pleasant sensation. But for the overwhelming majority of us, as may be observed, there is no choice but to tread the path of unpleasant sensation, for we are not blessed with such karma.

When has the majority ever been right? Sure they're convinced—because they don't think things through. Humanity has survived a lot of dooms.

The majority of dysfunctions that arise and entrench themselves in our lives are caused because of preconditioned expectations and assumptions.

Soon enough, the government that silences a media outlet finds muffling a second easier. The parliament that outlaws one political party has a precedent for banning the next. The majority that strips a particular minority of its rights doesn't stop there. The security force that beats protestors and gets away with it doesn't hesitate before doing so again.

In a true democracy, leaders respect the will of the majority but also the rights of the minority—one without the other is not enough. This means that constitutional protections for the individual must be defended, even when those protections become inconvenient to the party on top.

he arrived in the nation's highest office without ever having won a majority vote

Nor is the people's judgment always true: The most may err as grossly as the few.

Today, nearly everyone is much better off. Yet the rackety existence of the majority is as far removed from the security enjoyed by the truly wealthy as it was in Victorian times.(...) The wealthy can pass their lives without contact with the rest of society. So long as they do not pose a threat to the reach, the poor can be left to their own devices. Social democracy has been replaced by the oligarchy of the rich as part of the price of peace.

The tyranny of a majority can be just as cruel as the tyranny of a single dictator, depending on the degree of enlightenment or stupidity of the voting majority.

Democracy is essentially government by the majority, and a majority may be stupid, unenlightened, foolish, misled, and corrupt.

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.

The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith.

A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority