The Majority Quotes

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Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

A man with God is always in the majority.

A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.

And the Arabs are the biggest owners now of media in the United States, okay, and over stock exchanges. And in many major U.S. cities they’re the majority owners.

I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority.

The majority should not be punished and subjected to a licensing curfew because of the bad behavior of the minority.

Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning.

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.

The World War demonstrated the importance of Field Artillery. The majority of casualties were inflicted by the arm.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

The majority of the American people still believe that every single individual in this country is entitled to just as much respect, just as much dignity, as every other individual.

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed by everything in the world and by the great majority of evangelicals. You're going to be opposed.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that welfare is killing them.

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.

Doubts raced through my mind as I considered the feasibility of enforcing a law which the majority of honest citizens didn't seem to want.

I am sure the majority of Iranians want a peace agreement with Israel and want Iran to integrate with the international community and accept its universal values.

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

In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.

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.

Watch what everyone else does--do the opposite. The majority is always wrong.

The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and black.

None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.

I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority... in less than 20 years.

The parliamentary principle of decision by majorities only appears during quite short periods of history, and those are always periods of decadence in nations and States.

Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

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.

All that is needed for the majority of labors to go well is a healthy, pregnant woman who has loving support in labor, self-confidence , and attendants with infinite patience.

The ordinary Christian with the Bible in his hand can say that the majority is wrong.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

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.

What I consider to be peace [is] a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources to live dignified lives.

Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.