Quotes About Majority

If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come.

Esa frialdad cruel con que los hombres pagan la mayoría de las veces las manifestaciones demasiado ardientes de un amor puro.

Therefore, the chief task of the rulers is always to secure the active or resigned acceptance of the majority of the citizens.8, 9 Of course, one method of securing support is through the creation of vested economic interests.

Since predation must be supported out of the surplus of production, it is necessarily true that the class constituting the State—the full-time bureaucracy (and nobility)—must be a rather small minority in the land, although it may, of course, purchase allies among important groups in the population. Therefore, the chief task of the rulers is always to secure the active or resigned acceptance of the majority of the citizens.8, 9 Of

Desires may be different from individual to individual, but the end and the destinations are always the same for the majority of people seeking fame.

Most of the so-called facts are just opinions that have only been accepted by the majority.

The majority of the people do not seem to agree upon one single law that can be used with less effort in attracting the ideal life partner to us.

Today, the majority of preachers compete to write more personal books, rather than trying to compete to master the holy scriptures first.

This meant that while the vast majority of the country's citizens stayed at home, the War for Independence was being waged, in large part, by newly arrived immigrants.

Democracy meant all men were to be heard, and a decision was taken together as a people. Majority rule was a foreign notion. A minority was not to be crushed by a majority.

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

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

Rulers who represent only a minority have to invent civilization in order not to perish. The delegates of a majority, on the other hand, can be vulgar, rude, cruel, with impunity. The greater the majority that supports him, the less cautious the ruler is, the less tolerant, the less respectful of human diversity. When rulers deem themselves governors of all humanity, terror is near.

In order to transform the idea of the "social contract" into an eminently democratic thesis, one needs the sophism of suffrage. Where one supposes, in effect, that the majority is equivalent to the totality, the idea of consensus is twisted into totalitarian coercion.

In light of the majority of people today, one prefers them to speak hostile of religion

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.

If an election is to be determined by a majority of a single vote, and that can be procured by a party through artifice or corruption, the government may be the choice of a party, for its own ends, not of the nation, for the national good. If that solitary suffrage can be obtained by foreign nations, by flattery or by menaces .

A striking symptom of the church's problems in the West today is the fact that in a country such as the United States, Christians are still the overwhelming majority of citizens, but the American way of life has moved far from the way of life of Jesus—which means simply that the Christians who are the majority are living a way of life closer to the world than to the way of Jesus. In a word, they are worldly and therefore incapable of shaping their culture.

O Lord, save us from the murmuring spirit which with the majority of us is merely skin deep, but it is harmful, hurting the bloom of spiritual communion. Keep our life hid with Christ in God.

When you examined the facts judicially, and asked which would provide the greatest good for the greatest number, there could be only one answer.

I know that an overwhelming majority of the Belgian people are against the oppression of Africans. They disapprove of a colonial status for the Congo under which 14 million Congolese are exposed to the diktat of a tiny economic oligarchy. If the Belgian people were to have their say, the Congo would never have experienced the misfortunes which are affecting it now.

There is a qualitative difference between being a minority and being a majority. Majorities are stronger under psychological pressure because numbers count. But only if they are aware of it.

we exist to protect the majority so they can run around living their lives as decently and as best they can.

I'm not an Edenist, Ione said. What about me, and all the other Adamists, the majority of our race? Are you going to stand back as we perish and fall into the beyond?