Quotes About Majority

Evil…doesn't mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to "the Christian majority's" private liking.

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.

I am more optimistic, both about reading and about books. There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers – there always were. Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

Freedom consists of conforming to the will of the majority.

Don't sell yourself short, young man,' he said sternly. 'These people don't need charisma. They need hard work and the truth- exactly what you've given them. ... Popularity isn't everything. In fact, it isn't anything when you get right down to it. The majority is rarely right.

Bugüne kadar tarihteki tüm hareketler, ya az?nl?k hareketleri ya da az?nl?klar?n yarar?na hareketler olmuÅŸlard?r. Proletarya hareketi ise ezici çoÄŸunluÄŸun ezici çoÄŸunluk yarar?na ba??ms?z hareketidir.

And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition of a few, whom he can curb with ease in many ways.

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

Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.

By dividing the people of God as clergy and laymen, we have made the latter a majority of lame men.

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

In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.

In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.

Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.

That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash.

The majority of short term trading results are just random. In the long term the money ends up with those that can trade and manage risk.

Mother Earth is giving birth to a co-creative humanity. There's not a majority anywhere, but it's cropping up everywhere, because old leadership does not have the authority to guide us.

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism.

The greatest obstacle to human liberty is that the vast majority of people do not wish to be free.

Democracy is not perfect. It is an imperfection that the majority choose to support.

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.