Quotes About Majority

The real issue at hand is how God is going to respond to a culture when the majority of the people seek to veto Him.

George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States. He was appointed by God.

I believe a very large majority of church goers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God.

It would not be for the public good to have [a majority in Congress of one party] greater [than] two to one.

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.

In a democracy sovereignity is vested in a majority; and a majority is not only, at best, an ignorant, foolish and emotional mob, but shifts continually and alters from year to year.

A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

And we know that once we have a majority that are dependent upon the government, we will lose our freedom; it says we go into bondage. That's the next stage.

Stephen Harper, who's the prime minister of Canada, he is saying that this - we have to give him a majority government, otherwise there will be a Separatist coalition. And he says it every minute.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done.

An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.

Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude.

Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

President Bush will go down in history as the torture president. He has now defied a majority of Congress to allow the use of interrogation techniques that any reasonable observer would call torture.

When great changes occur in history when great principles are involved as a rule the majority are wrong.

I am well aware of the disagreeable effect produced on the majority of humanity, by whatever relates, even at the slightest degree to calculations or mathematical reasonings.

Divine Law is not subject nor affected by the majority vote of humanity

Jesus clearly taught that the majority of humanity will spend eternity in hell, and only a few will find the exclusive way to salvation.