Majority Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

‎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.

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.

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.

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

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

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.