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“Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of the nation.”

People Nations Theory Republican Majority Seven Rulers Womens Rights

Book:Address in favor of Universal Suffrage, for the Election of Delegates to the Constitutional Convention, etc

Source: Address in favor of Universal Suffrage, for the Election of Delegates to the Constitutional Convention, etc

“Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that, if people could see just how many of us there are, some in very important places, the negative stereotype would vanish overnight. ...It is far more realistic to suppose that, if the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.”

Source: Outlander: Short Stories and Essays

“In the rush of today's world, and with more than half of us now living in cities, the majority of people are less and less connected with the spectacle of Nature.”

People World Today Cities Half Majority Connected Living In The City

Author:Louise Leakey

“Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not 'Islamic.' No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL's victims have been Muslim. And ISIL is certainly not a state. It was formerly al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq, and has taken advantage of sectarian strife and Syria's civil war to gain territory on both sides of the Iraq-Syrian border. It is recognized by no government, nor the people it subjugates. ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.”

“The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.”

People Kind Majority Mutual Affected Coercion

Author:Garrett Hardin

“The vast majority of people's concept of love is actually hate, more or less. “I need you, I must have you, I can't live without you, you're mine,” is all non-love.”

People Needs I Can Hate Love Is Mines Concepts Majority Need You Without You I Need You Concept Of Love Can't Live Without You

Author:Lester Levenson

“It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.”

Ifs Clear Blame Majority Israel France Britain Iran Resolution Middle East Crystals Earthquakes Veto

Author:Amos Oz

“It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.”

People Men Enough Knowledge Intelligent Majority Intelligence Definitions Intelligent Man

Author:G. H. Hardy

“This is the first time in history that a war has involved the whole world, and also it may last many years more; this thought is soul-shattering for all of us as human beings. It is horrible to think that the crimes committed by this one man Hitler have these many years been destroying the lives of hundreds of thousands and millions, and one would despair entirely were it not certain that the majority, the innumerable majority which opposes him openly or secretly, will succeed in wiping out once and for all him and his.”

Source: Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942

“Some labeled Jerry Falwell an American version of the Ayatollah Khomeni. People for the American Way, a group organized to counter the Moral Majority, launched a slick media campaign attaching the Nazi slur to the religious right.”

People Way Christian Religious Moral Groups Media Majority Campaigns Versions Organized Nazi Jerry Slick Slurs

Book:Inspirational Writings of Charles Colson

Source: Inspirational Writings of Charles Colson

“The signs of the antichrist spirit are clear. They emerge in this fashion: A significant minority then an actual majority, of the people in a society begin to throw off the restraints of history, then the restraints of written law, then accepted standards of morality, then established religion, and, finally God Himself.”

People Christian Law Spirit Religious Clear Written Fashion Morality Standards Majority Accepted Significant Minorities Restraint Antichrist

Book:The Collected Works of Pat Robertson: The New Millennium/the New World Order/the Secret Kingdom/3 Books in 1

Source: The Collected Works of Pat Robertson: The New Millennium/the New World Order/the Secret Kingdom/3 Books in 1

“The overwhelming majority of social scientists were irreligious or even anti-religious. This led them to believe that religion was a disappearing and unimportant factor in human affairs.”

Believe Humans Christian Social Religious Scientist Majority Affair Disappear Factors Overwhelming Unimportant Anti Religious

Author:Rodney Stark

“... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education.... The three R's, a littlemusic and a good deal of dancing, a first rate dress-maker and a bottle of magnolia balm, are quite enough generally to render charming any woman possessed of tact and the capacity for worshipping masculinity.”

Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

“Supreme power rests in the will of all or of the majority.”

Power Majority Supreme Supreme Power

Author:Georg Buchner

“The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.”

Children Ends Care Political Party Moral Support Perspective Birth Majority Abortion Conception Nutrition Political Parties Legislators Day Care

Author:Barney Frank

“We have not done the things that are necessary to lower emissions because those things fundamentally conflict with deregulated capitalism. ... We are stuck because the actions that would give us the best chance of averting catastrophe - and would benefit the vast majority - are extremely threatening to an elite minority that has a stranglehold over our economy, our political process, and most of our major media outlets.”

Giving Done Action Political Process Chance Economy Media Conflict Benefits Majors Capitalism Majority Climate Change Stuck Minorities Elites Catastrophe Threatening Outlets Emissions

Author:Naomi Klein

“On two subjects the overwhelming majority of people regarded their own opinions as Absolute Truth, and sincerely believed that anyone who disagreed with them was immoral, outrageous, sinful, sacrilegious, offensive, intolerable, stupid, illogical, treasonable, actionable, against the public interest, ridiculous, and obscene. The two subjects were (of course) sex and religion.”

Source: To Sail Beyond the Sunset

“In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it has been felt by the majority of the world's population from Turkey to China. These are the amazing stories of the grandfathers of today's angry Asians. Excellent!”

World Long Has Beens Book Stories Today Felt Modern Angry Majority West Population China East Brilliant Excellent Grandfather Reverse Turkeys New Books Modern History

Author:Orhan Pamuk

“Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.”

Struggle Democracy Slavery Majority Royalty

Author:Aristotle

“We do know for sure that good Irish Catholics followed their faith in the direction of inclusion, compassion, equality, justice, and a host of other Catholic values when they voted with the majority despite some clergymen’s efforts to lead them astray.”

Knows Values Justice Effort Compassion Catholic Majority Despite Host Inclusion Clergymen

Author:Mary E. Hunt

“The majority of women commit the strategic error of attempting to excel in a maximum of fields in order to satisfy all their customers' needs.”

Needs Order Fields Majority Errors Customers Commit Maximum Attempting Strategic

Author:Christiane Collange

“Some adolescents are troubled and some get into trouble. But the great majority (almost nine out of ten) do not. . . . The bottomline is that good kids don't suddenly go bad in adolescence.”

Kids Trouble Ten Majority Nine Adolescence

Author:Laurence Steinberg

“Until we devise means of discovering workers who are temperamentally irked by monotony it will be well to take for granted that the majority of human beings cannot safely be regimented at work without relief in the form of education and recreation and pleasant surroundings.”

Humans Wells Mean Form Work Human Beings Majority Workers Granted Pleasant Relief Discovering Surroundings Recreation Monotony

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“... nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those of which Want is the mother. "Miserable" covers many; "shabby" most, and I am sadly aware that, in a large majority of minds, "disagreeable" includes them all.”

Want Mind Whole Seems Mother Poor Poverty Fit Majority Miserable Disagreeable Adjectives Differentiate Shabby Classism

Book:Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations

Source: Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations

“Majority doesn't rule. One person can change the history of the world.”

World Persons Majority World History

Author:Paul Mooney

“Nothing goes on forever. I think that's one of the illusions of life. When I talk about my life being an extension of my dreams and fantasies, there's a tendency to think of them as immature. I live in a mature world. The majority of the people in this society live with delusions and illusions much more irrational and hurtful than mine. They deal with mortality, with fantasies relating to heaven and hell, and they don't really deal with their problems at all.”

“Clearly, Iran has influence in Iraq. Iraq has a majority Shi'a population, they have relationships to Iran. Some are natural.”

Natural Influence Majority Iraq Population Iran

Author:Barack Obama

“The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they refused to adopt the Arabic language, and it's a great point of pride to them that Persian culture and the Persian language and Persian literature survived the conversion to Islam. And the conversion to Islam also was for most of them not the Sunni majority form, but the Shia one. So there's a great discrepancy between Iranian society and many other of what we think of as Arab Muslim States and systems.”

“The majority of terrorist attacks that have been disrupted in the United States have been disrupted due to things like the Time Square bomber, who was caught by a hotdog vendor, not a mass surveillance program, not a cyber-espionage campaign.”

Has Beens States United United States Mass Program Majority Caught Dues Campaigns Terrorist Squares Surveillance Espionage Terrorist Attacks Cyber Bombers Vendors Times Square

Author:Edward Snowden

“I personally spend the majority of my time by far on outreach and education and fundraising and administration.”

Majority Administration My Time Fundraising Outreach

Author:James Balog

“When you're battling against the minds of the studios and the money that can go into promoting larger budget films, it's very hard for a very small-budget Australian film to get a look in. You can get critically acclaimed and go to various film festivals around the world, but that doesn't necessarily mean the majority of people are going to hear about it.”

People World Mind Looks Mean Hard Film Majority Various Studios Around The World Budgets Festivals Promoting Australian Film Festivals Australian Films

Author:Hugo Weaving

“After working for TV, you realise that the majority of the population still wonders where their next meal is coming from.”

Stills Next Wonder Tvs Majority Population Meals Realising

Author:Terence Lewis

“He who desires or attempts to reform the government of a state and wishes to have it accepted, must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the institutions, even though in fact they are entirely different from the old ones. For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities.”

People May Has Beens Different States Facts Reality Seems Government Form Desire Wish Mankind Institutions Majority Appearance Accepted Satisfied Reform Semblance

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“This Tony Haywire guy, whatever his name is, he told the BBC on Sunday that he believes the new oil cap that they've installed will eventually capture the vast majority of oil spewing from the well. You know, if they could capture half the BS spewing from Tony Hayward, people would be thrilled.”

People Ifs Knows Believe Wells Would Be Guy Names Half Majority Oil Sunday Capture Caps

Author:Jay Leno

“Trent Lott has regained a position of leadership. He was the former majority leader who lost his post for racially insensitive commentary. I believe he mentioned that Strom Thurmond in 1948, who ran as a segregationist candidate, should have won. ... But now, sound the irony alarm. He has recaptured a position and his position -- I kid you not -- in the Senate will be minority whip. So, my guess is he takes to that job like, let's say, white on rice.”

“I get to choose things that interest me as opposed to trying to get any job that will have me, which for a vast majority of actors is the case.”

Trying Jobs Actors Interest Cases Majority

Author:Neil Patrick Harris

“I like to spend time with my family. The majority of my time is spent in London, but I do like to escape and spend time with them in my hometown of Brighton on the south coast.”

My Family Majority South London My Time End Times Coast Spend Time Hometown Brighton

Author:Katie Price

“The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.”

Children States Law President United Acting United States Land Majority Congress Average Bipartisan Above Average

Author:Charles A. Murray

“Under the constitution, there was never meant to be a federal police force. Even an FBI limited only to investigations was not accepted until this century. Yet today, fueled by the federal government's misdirected war on drugs, radical environmentalism, and the aggressive behavior of the nanny state, we have witnessed the massive buildup of a virtual army of armed regulators prowling the States where they have no legal authority. The sacrifice of individual responsibility and the concept of local government by the majority of American citizens has permitted the army of bureaucrats to thrive.”

“I am convinced that the majority of the religious hierarchy today deplores the hardship inflicted on our people. I am referring not only to the martyrs but of the families who have been dispersed and terrified, who have no resources, and to the four million unemployed who are suffering from the economic chaos of a country which only a year earlier was giving employment to a million foreigners. Those who have chosen to serve God must feel profoundly sad at seeing ridicule poured on the most sacred principles of our religion.”

Source: The Shah's story

“I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded. It was long after that I learned that a vast majority of all benevolent institutions are gotten up to gratify the aesthetic tastes of the public; exhibit the wealth and generosity of the founders, and furnish places for officers. The beneficiaries of the institutions are simply an apology for their existence, and having furnished that apology, the less said about them the better.”

“The vast majority of the peoples of the world are against war and against aggression. If they make their wishes known and effective, war can be stopped. It all depends on whether they are willing to make the effort necessary for the purpose. For, that it will require an effort, no one who considers the history of the world on these subjects can doubt.”

Ifs World War Purpose Wish Effort Known Doubt Subjects Willing Depends Majority Aggression World History Against War

Author:Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

“Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.”

Views Truth Is Tests Majority Favour

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“The thing we have to fear in this country, to my way of thinking, is the influence of the organized minorities, because somehow or other the great majority does not seem to organize. They seem to feel that they are going to be effective because of their own strength, but they give no expression of it.”

Thinking Way Giving Feels Doe Country Seems Influence Expression Majority My Way Organized Minorities Organize Way Of Thinking

Author:Al Smith

“In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.”

Mean Certain Numbers Mankind Fool Degrees Mass Respect Majority Respectable Respectability Knaves

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.”

Giving Book Majority Impression Our Time

Book:The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort

Source: The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort

“In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.”

Men Reason Would Be Order Evil Imagine Majority Forgiving Necessary Evil

Book:The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort

Source: The Cynic's Breviary: Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort

“If the majority of people of a country, no matter how great its natural resources, organize and conspire to get more out and put less in, to do less and get more, how long will, how long can it last?”

People Ifs Long Country Matter Lasts Natural Wealth Resources Majority Organize Natural Resources

Author:William J. H. Boetcker

“Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom.”

Looks Doe Action Ignorance Majority Collectives Misinformation Inexperience

Author:William J. H. Boetcker

“We shall do better to abandon the whole attempt to learn the truthunless we can trust to the human mind's having such a powerof guessing right that before very many hypotheses shall have been tried, intelligent guessing may be expected to lead us to one which will support all tests, leaving the vast majority of possible hypotheses unexamined.”

Mind Humans May Has Beens Whole Science Support Tests Intelligent Majority Leaving Expected Abandon Human Mind Hypothesis Guessing

Author:Charles Sanders Peirce

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