Majority Quotes
The vast majority of our troubles and heartaches would simply vanish from view if only we could remember - before we act - that we are made victims mostly by our own tendencies.
The overwhelming majority of our nation - intellectuals, academics, theologians, the greats, and the leadership - are in favor of getting the sanctions removed.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.
We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.
Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have common motive to invade the rights of other citizens.
It seems very obvious that a vast majority of the American people are sick and tired of political correctness and prevailing partisanship that does not serve the American people or freedom well.
This dog, which, although no beauty, was of an uncommon breed, I had made my friend and companion; and it certainly deserved the name better than the majority of those who had assumed it.
When you speak about generosity, about something good we have inside ourselves, you're speaking to the majority.
Not everyone reads comics, although most people know the major superheroes, but the majority of people play video games.
No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.
I've dominated a majority of my opponents. Very few people I only win against. Most of the time it's pretty one-sided. That's success to me.
I think the ideal way of living is to live like the vast majority of people whom we attempt to serve and represent.
Libraries serve the information needs of all of the people in the community — not just the loudest, not just the most powerful, not even just the majority. Libraries serve everyone.
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.
It's just disgusting that in this society, the majority of students in art school are women, but they amount to less than 30% of what is shown in museums. That has not changed radically.
What we have is North Korea still pursuing path to a nuclear weapon state. So the majority of people's trust in North Korea has gone down considerably.
Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work.
Meditation is the direct means of eradicating the very cause of the majority of diseases, both mental and physical.
The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.
The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.
People tend to have a government that reflects the level of consciousness of the majority of people who voted.
When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.
Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.
I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.
The most important attribute for success in value investing is patience, patience, and more patience. The majority of investors do not possess this characteristic.
The vast majority of my time is traveling and talking about the issues. It isn't really calling and asking for money.
The majority of people mistakenly feel like they don't need a live musical experience.
The systemic failure in the media in covering ISIS is that the majority of reporters are doing it in a semaphore fashion.
Clinton was a president who used his office, in creative ways, to try to reinvigorate the federal government to benefit the majority.
Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down.
After working for TV, you realise that the majority of the population still wonders where their next meal is coming from.
Large enterprises make the few rich, but the majority prosper only through the carefulness and detail of thrift.
With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.
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.
The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.
Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.
George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States. He was appointed by God.
Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!
The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.
The majority of Israelis want change, the Netanyahu era is coming to an end. That's not because security issues don't matter but because social and economic issues are dominating the agenda.
The problem of insufficient security was, until quite recently, a matter of a minority; now it is becoming very quickly a majority matter. That is a major change.