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Majority Quotes

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

Incorrectness does not become correct because the majority endorse it.
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2.
Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

3.
If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.
Barbara Jordan

If contemporary society fails to confront injustice, the notion is propagated that the majority condone these offenses.
4.
The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.
James Madison

The objective of the Constitution is to impede the majority's capacity to hurt a minority.
5.
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.
Rick Warren

'Misrepresentation does not acquire validity, wrongness does not become justified and malevolence does not become amiable simply because it is accepted by a multitude.'
6.
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.
Alex Jones

The Arabs are now the principal proprietors of media in America, and of numerous stock markets. Additionally, they are the dominant owners in quite a few sizable U.S. cities.
7.
I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority.
Sigmund Freud

I became cognizant of my fate: to be part of the discerning minority instead of the unthinking multitude.
8.
The majority should not be punished and subjected to a licensing curfew because of the bad behavior of the minority.
Tessa Jowell

The majority should not be disadvantaged and subjected to a licensing restriction due to the misdeeds of the minority.
9.
Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Giordano Bruno

10.
Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.
Friedrich Nietzsche

11.
If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.
Carl Rogers

12.
One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
James K. Polk

13.
The World War demonstrated the importance of Field Artillery. The majority of casualties were inflicted by the arm.
John J. Pershing

14.
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.
Steven Spielberg

15.
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.
Paul Washer

16.
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.
Cathy Guisewite

17.
The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that welfare is killing them.
Pauline Hanson

18.
Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.
Diane Watson

19.
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.
Lord Acton

20.
An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.
Gerald R. Ford

21.
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.
Mikhail Bakunin

22.
Watch what everyone else does--do the opposite. The majority is always wrong.
Earl Nightingale

23.
In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves.
John Stuart Mill

24.
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
James Madison

25.
None of the great players has been so incomprehensible to the majority of amateurs and even masters, as Emanuel Lasker.
Jose Raul Capablanca

26.
I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority... in less than 20 years.
Elon Musk

27.
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.
Adolf Hitler

28.
The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery.
Ayn Rand

29.
Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.
John Adams

30.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Bertrand Russell

31.
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.
Gamaliel Bailey

32.
The ordinary Christian with the Bible in his hand can say that the majority is wrong.
Francis Schaeffer

33.
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

34.
Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.
Evo Morales

35.
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.
Alexis de Tocqueville

36.
‎Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against "society," that is, against the majority subdued and hypnotized by the State and State worship.
Emma Goldman

37.
The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
Carter G. Woodson

38.
The future is our responsibility, but change will not take place until the majority loose confidence in their dictator’s and elected officials’ ability to solve problems. It will likely take an economic catastrophe resulting in enormous human suffering to bring about true social change.
Jacque Fresco

39.
Un homme avec Dieu est toujours dans la majorite . One man with God is always a majority.
John Knox

40.
While the vast majority of hackers may be disinclined towards violence, it would only take a few to turn cyber terrorism into reality.
Dorothy E. Denning

41.
The majority of players are looking for reasons to fold. I am looking for reasons to play.
Daniel Negreanu

42.
Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles.
George Orwell

43.
Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
Albert Camus

44.
What the majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis, it is not what you do for you children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.
Ann Landers

45.
Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will of a majority; a form of government, as in all other unlimited ones, in which injustice, violence, and force must ultimately prevail.
John C. Calhoun

46.
Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.
Michelle Rodriguez

47.
Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.
William Jennings Bryan

48.
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.
Ayn Rand

49.
The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.
Leonard Peikoff

50.
The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.
Barack Obama