“The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account” PeopleWellsPracticeSeriousDutyAccountsMajorityPermitSchooledUneasiness Book:1829-1836 Source: 1829-1836
“The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men.” MenFeelsExistenceRightsDutyHigherEqualTasksMajorityRelatedMisfortunes Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing.” CertainPoliticsIndividualChanceWifeDutyOffersMajorityOfficialsPublic Officials Book:Autobiography Source: Autobiography
“Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any other citizen. It is both a public and a private duty to protect those rights. The Congress ought to exercise all its powers of prevention and punishment against the hideous crime of lynching, of which the negroes are by no means the sole sufferers, but for which they furnish a majority of the victims.” PeopleMeanRightsCrimeDutyOughtCitizensExerciseProtectConstitutionVictimSacredMajorityCongressPopulationPunishmentSoleHideousPreventionSufferersLynching Author:Calvin Coolidge
“The duty of motherhood, which the vast majority of woman will always undertake, requires the qualities which men need not possess.” MenNeedsWomenQualityDutyMajorityMotherhood Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“Somehow it is the male's duty to put the best years of his life into work he doesn't like in order that he may "retire" and enjoy himself as soon as he is too old to do so. This is more than just the system - it is the credo. It is the same thing that prompted Thoreau to say, in 1839: 'The majority of men lead lives of quiet desperation.'” MenYearsMayOrderEnjoyDutyQuietMajorityMalesRetiringDesperationBest YearCredoQuiet Desperation Book:Wanderer Source: Wanderer
“Some 3,500 Muslims now serve in the U.S. military. The overwhelming majority of them are loyal Americans who see no conflict between their personal religious duty and service to their country. But there can no place in our military for those persons of any faith who do. America has now seen the horrors of what 'diversity at any cost' can lead to.” PersonsCountryAmericaReligiousMilitaryDutyHorrorCostConflictDiversityMajorityOverwhelmingLoyal Author:Linda Chavez
“It is deeply interesting to notice also where the citizens were put to work. Each was set to labor on the bit of all opposite his home... I do not say that men are not called to service in far distant places... But I do say that for the vast majority the task that God appoints is the task lying at the door. The nearest thing is God's thing. The nearest duty is God's duty. He who cannot find his service there is little likely to be useful anywhere.” MenLittlesHomeLyingBitsInterestingDoorsDutyCitizensLaborTasksOppositesMajority Author:George H Morrison
“As Muslims, our interests are our values. In any society, be it in Western or Muslim-majority countries, our duty is that of critical loyalty: Staying loyal to our countries by always being critically engaged in the name of the principles of justice, equality and human brotherhood. We should be the ethical and moral voice wherever we are by saying that, even though we understand economic and geo-strategic interests, we cannot accept a violation of these principles by any society.” ShouldHumansCountryValuesNamesVoiceInterestJusticeAcceptingMoralPrinciplesEconomicDutyMajorityWesternCriticalLoyaltyOur CountryEngagedStayingEthicalBrotherhoodLoyalViolationStrategicJustice Equality Author:Tariq Ramadan