“The great majority of the Senate of the United States...somewhere around 80 percent...are completely in support of Israel, anything Israel wants. This has been demonstrated time and again, and this has made it difficult.” WantHas BeensMadeStatesDifficultUnitedUnited StatesSupportPercentMajorityJewIsraelMade ItSenate Author:J. William Fulbright
“Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal oppression of the Taliban.” Has BeensGirlFightingSupportFoundationMajorityFeministCampaignsOppressionBrutalTalibanAfghan Author:Eleanor Smeal
“Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.” PeopleYearsHas BeensMajorityStrategyDrivenInitiativeDoomedStrategic Author:Peter Senge
“Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftists who attribute AIDS to some sort of conspiracy, have a clearly political analysis of the epidemic. But even if one attributes its cause to a microorganism rather than the wrath of God, or the workings of the CIA, it is clear that the way in which AIDS has been perceived, conceptualized, imagined, researched and financed makes this the most political of diseases.” IfsWayHas BeensPoliticalLanguageCausesMoralClearDiseaseMajorityAidsAnalysisAttributesConspiracyWrathMedievalCiaEpidemicsRecyclingLeftistsUltrasWrath Of GodMicroorganisms Author:Dennis Altman
“Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every valuable thing that has been added to the store of man's possessions has been derided by them when it was new, and destroyed by them when they had the power. They have fought every new truth ever heard of, and they have killed every truth-seeker who got into their hands.” MenFirstsHumansHas BeensHandsStepsProgressHeardMajorityPossessionValuableStoresDestroyedAbyssSeekersEvery StepStirringHuman ProgressValuable ThingsTruth Seekers Author:H. L. Mencken
“All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.” KnowsHumansHas BeensImportantIndividualProgressMajorityHistoricalDuesOpposition Author:Bertrand Russell
“The gulf coast region has been hit hard by two major hurricanes and is going to need federal assistance at several levels, The best way to make sure that the resources are targeted properly is for us to see this area firsthand. I am pleased that members from both sides of the aisle share my commitment to making sure that the relief effort is targeted and managed as efficiently as possible.” WayNeedsHas BeensTwoHardSidesLevelsEffortShareMembersMajorsCommitmentResourcesAreasMajorityBest WayReliefRegionsCoastBoth SidesAssistanceHurricanesAisle Author:Bob Goodlatte
“A majority of the crime in the downtown is property crime. There have been a few larcenies and burglaries, but robberies and assaults are not common in the downtown. There isn't usually any violent crime.” Has BeensCommonCrimeMajorityPropertyViolentAssaultDowntownRobberyViolent CrimesBurglaryLarceny Author:Greg Smith
“Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet.” YearsHas BeensPastValuesCommunityCreationInternetMajorityConsumersVentureOver The Past Author:Bill Gurley
“The majority of times when a man thinks he has been the instigator, which men like to think, in sexual and romantic experiences, that has not been the case.” ThinkingMenHas BeensWomenCasesEnlightenmentMajorityInstigators Author:Frederick Lenz
“We have this sacred cow in our society that what the majority of people want is rightbut is it? Our populace can't really be informed, not the majority of themmost people vote the way they have been manipulated and by the way they have responded to that manipulationthey are working out their own patterns of wishful thinking on the social environment in which they live.” PeopleThinkingWayWantHas BeensSocialEnvironmentVoteSacredMajorityPatternsWork OutOur SocietyManipulationCowsWishful ThinkingSacred CowsSocial Environment Author:David Gerrold
“With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.” Has BeensPurposeMajorityShouldersForeheads Book:Poems, 1913-1956 Source: Poems, 1913-1956
“American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The majority, initiate in a few of the patent rituals of Aristotle and Quintilian, don the forbidding robes of high priests to Sweetness and Light, and go about their business much as if the idea were to keep all they know to themselves.” IfsKnowsHas BeensIdeasLightJobsLiteratureMajorityCriticsRationalPriestsConceptionRitualSweetnessRobesPatentsInitiateAmerican Literature Author:Burton Rascoe