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“In the vast majority of cases the secret society symbolism hearkens from two places - Ireland and Egypt.”

Two Secret Cases Majority Ireland Egypt Symbolism Secret Society

“Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible. This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.”

Country Today Interest Standards Capitalism Majority Desirable Exploits Imposing Deprivation Developed Country

Author:John Berger

“Until the American majority is willing to live within its means, it can hardly force its political leaders to do so.”

Mean Political Force Leader Willing Majority Political Leaders

Author:Oliver DeMille

“Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.”

Political Leader Class Middle Benefits Vote Increase Majority Debt Middle Class Dislike Soar Political Leaders National Debt

Author:Oliver DeMille

“In our day, a vast majority of people is dependent either on an employer or the government-or both. One way to rate your level of independence might be to measure how long you can survive, feed your family and live in your home after your employer stops paying you anything.”

People Way Long Home Government Might Levels Independence Majority Rate One Way Our Family Dependent Employers

Author:Oliver DeMille

“If the majority is moral then why do they need to be ruled by a group of people who are power hungry and gun hungry and probably not quite so good? And evil people want two things: they want something for nothing, and to escape the consequences of their actions, which is pretty much the definition of what government is.”

People Ifs Want Needs Two Government Action Evil Moral Groups Gun Consequence Majority Definitions Hungry Two Things Good And Evil Want Something Evil People Power Hungry

Author:Stefan Molyneux

“The sad fact is that the vast majority of drunks stay drunks. There's a small minority of us who reach that fork in the road where one side says 'live' and the other says 'drink'.”

Facts Sides Drink Majority Minorities Forks Fork In The Road

Author:John Larroquette

“So long as the great majority of the poor in any country are inert and are laboring without any hope in this world, the whole associated life of that community rests on an equivocal foundation. Its moral and social order is tied to an economic system which starves and mutilates the great majority of the population, and under such conditions its religion necessarily becomes a spiritual drug, administered for the purpose of subduing the popular discontent and relieving the popular misery.”

“When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.”

Opinion Majority

Author:Mark Twain

“When people ask me what I do for a living, I generally tell them 'I run a hedge fund.' The majority give me a strange look, so I quickly add, 'I am a money manager.' When the strange look persists, as it often does, I correct it to simply, 'I'm an investor.' Everyone knows what that is.”

People Knows Giving Looks Doe Running Asks Strange Give Me Majority Add Managers Ask Me Fund Investors Persist Hedge Fund

Author:David Einhorn

“The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.”

Thinking Men Believe Reason Authority Capable Majority

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“The vast majority of my time is traveling and talking about the issues. It isn't really calling and asking for money.”

Talking Issues Calling Asking Majority My Time Asking For Money

Author:Rand Paul

“Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down.”

States Turns Culture United Race United States Involved Majority Tendencies Proven Upside Down

Author:Taylor Branch

“I've been on a major label for 14 years. I've always wanted as many people as possible to hear my music, and it definitely made sense for the majority of my career to be on a major label, on a distribution level, to be in people's faces and be out there, and have access to major labels' incredible machine, even though they have not understood or haven't been invested in what I was doing.”

People Years Made Wanted Faces Levels Careers Havens Majors Understood Machines Majority Incredibles Access Labels Distribution

Author:DJ Shadow

“By 2042, whites will no longer be the American majority.”

Majority

Author:Richard Benjamin

“We're never all going to agree with each other. We have to learn to value the diversity. It's one of the presumable principles of our government that isn't followed nearly enough - one of the jobs of the majority is to try and make the minority feel comfortable.”

Feels Trying Enough Government Jobs Values Principles Comfortable Diversity Agree Majority Minorities

Author:Paul R. Ehrlich

“Democracy is for infidels. A real Muslim is not a democrat because he doesn't care about the opinions of majorities and minorities don't interest him. He is only interested in what Islam says.”

Real Care Interest Opinion Democracy Majority Democrat Islam Minorities Infidel He Doesn't Care Majority And Minority

Author:Abdul Sattar Abu Risha

“More and more families today are sending both parents into the workforce - t's become the norm, it's what we now expect. The overwhelming majority of us do it because we think it will make our families more secure. But that's not how things have worked out.”

Thinking Today Parent Majority Secure Our Family Overwhelming Norm Workforce Families Today

Author:Amelia Warren Tyagi

“If the corrupt Jordanian monarchy were overthrown, it would be the ideal opportunity to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the West Bank and Jordan could then be united. There is already a Palestinian majority in Jordan, and there is enough room for everyone there. That would be the best revolution I could imagine.”

Ifs Enough Would Be Opportunity United Rooms Imagine Revolution Conflict Ideals Majority West Solve Being The Best Palestinian Israeli Monarchy Jordan Israeli Palestinian Conflict

Author:Tom Segev

“When you cannot achieve a majority, it's a good idea to get rid of minority stakes.”

Ideas Achieve Majority Minorities Stakes Good Ideas

Author:Mathias Dopfner

“They're still a subject beholden to special interests, but at least they have a national constituency. At least they have to think about national majorities.”

Thinking Stills Interest Special Subjects Majority Special Interests

Author:Mark Shields

“Where it is the majority religion, Islam does not recognize religious freedom, at least not as we understand it. Islam is a different culture. This doesn't mean that it's an inferior culture, but it is a culture that has yet to connect with the positive sides of our modern Western culture: religious freedom, human rights and equal rights for women.”

Humans Mean Doe Different Culture Sides Religious Rights Modern Equal Majority Islam Western Human Rights Inferiors Equal Rights Religious Freedom Different Cultures Western Culture

Author:Walter Kasper

“The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.”

Seems Values Majors Increase Majority Work Out Shareholders Mergers Shareholder Value

Author:Barry Ritholtz

“President Bush will go down in history as the torture president. He has now defied a majority of Congress to allow the use of interrogation techniques that any reasonable observer would call torture.”

Use President Majority Congress Technique Torture Reasonable Observers President Bush Interrogation Interrogation Techniques

Author:Jennifer Daskal

“A new poll also shows that a majority of people in Colorado think Hillary Clinton is not trustworthy. Although, that's not saying much coming from the most paranoid state in America. 'Hillary Clinton? She's a cop?'”

People Thinking States Shows America Majority Clinton Cop Polls Trustworthy Paranoid Colorado Not Trustworthy

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“If a consensus of the majority is all it takes to determine what is right, then having and controlling information becomes extraordinarily important.”

Ifs Important Information Majority Determine Consensus

Author:Masamune Shirow

“The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of people, who are innately obedient to authority. This obedience-truth will then become a consensus-truth accepted by many individuals unable to stand alone against the majority. In this way, the truth promulgated by the propaganda system - however irrational - stands a good chance of becoming the consensus, and may come to seem self-evident common sense.”

“Libraries serve the information needs of all of the people in the community — not just the loudest, not just the most powerful, not even just the majority. Libraries serve everyone.”

People Needs Community Powerful Information Majority Library Most Powerful

Author:Judith Krug

“In a modern world where a majority of women say, 'I don't need you, I've got my money, I've got my stuff,' I say, 'I desperately need men.' My whole album is a tribute to men. It takes a man in me to tell you that I'm on my knees for men.”

Men World Needs Whole Stuff Modern Majority Albums Knees Modern World Need You Tribute Don't Need You I Don't Need You

Author:Lou Doillon

“My mother always spoke to me in English, so it's technically my maternal language, and it became a kind of private language - I was happy that I could speak in English to my mum and the majority of people wouldn't understand it.”

People Kind Mother Speak Language Majority Spokes Mum

Author:Lou Doillon

“It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation.”

Millions Generations Higher Thousand Ten Fairs Majority Genes Organisms Frequency Mutation One In A Million

Author:Francisco J. Ayala

“Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much.”

People Blind Majority Deaf Blind People

Author:Luis Bunuel

“The majority of romantic comedy movies have nothing to do with love, but everything to do with infatuation.”

Comedy Majority Infatuation Comedy Movie

Author:Matt Smith

“Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.”

Winning Force Results Consciousness Majority Inevitable Opposition Severe Backlash Measure Of Success

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Applauds of the ignorant majority are worthless; applauds of the wise minority are priceless! Look carefully, who are applauding you? Look carefully, who are blessing you? Mud in the ground or stars in the sky?”

Looks Stars Wise Sky Blessing Majority Ignorant Minorities Mud Worthless Priceless Stars In The Sky Blessing You

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“People who write about issues like poverty or terrorism are a part of the elite, and the distance between the elite and nonelite is growing very fast. You can move around the world but meet only people who speak your language, who share the same ideas, the same beliefs, and in doing so you can lose sight of the fact that the vast majority of the world does not think or believe in or speak the everyday discourse of the elite.”

“The majority of guys that I've met, that I consider confident and sexy, are pretty well rooted in who they are. They know their values and their worth as a person. They know they are intelligent, caring men, and that generates confidence.”

Knows Men Wells Persons Guy Values Mets Intelligent Majority Sexy Caring Rooted

Author:Stephanie Beatriz

“The music of the westerner comes from Africa, whether they like it or not. The majority of the instruments of the music, of the pop music, rock and roll, or R&B, hip hop, whatever it is, their roots trace back to Africa. So if you are black, white, yellow, or red, whatever you do, it doesn't matter, because your DNA is back in Africa.”

Ifs Matter Black White Rocks Red Roots Instruments Majority Hip Hop Pops Hips Hops Yellow Rock And Roll Dna Pop Music Black White Westerners

Author:Angelique Kidjo

“There's a substantial portion of my recorded repertoire that was learned for the recording sessions, and then basically forgotten. I wouldn't say it's the majority, but it's a fairly good chunk of it.”

Majority Forgotten Portions Session Chunks

Author:Marc-Andre Hamelin

“The majority is never right, unless it includes me.”

Majority

Author:Ashleigh Brilliant

“If there is a rotten government in a democracy, the main reason for this is that there is a rotten majority over there!”

Ifs Reason Government Democracy Majority Rotten

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If, in a democracy, the cognition of the majority is not much better than the cognition of the sheep, democracy will surely fail.”

Ifs Democracy Failing Majority Sheep Cognition

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In a country where ignorant millions are in majority, nightmares never end! When one nightmare finishes, another one starts!”

Ends Country Millions Majority Ignorant Nightmare

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I think the majority of musicians are interested in truth.”

Thinking Musician Majority

Author:John Coltrane

“I became aware of my destiny: to belong to the critical minority as opposed to the unquestioning majority.”

Destiny Majority Critical Minorities My Destiny

Author:Sigmund Freud

“The immiseration of the majority is an integral part of the Free World package for the Third World, the unsavory aspects of the package - the terror, the direct spoilation of people and resources, and western complicity - must be rationalized and, as far as possible, kept under the rug.”

People World Resources Aspect Direct Thirds Majority Western Terror Packages Third World Complicity Free World

Book:The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda

Source: The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda

“The majority of people believe in incredible things which are absolutely false. The majority of people daily act in a manner prejudicial to their general well-being.”

People Believe Wells Majority Incredibles Well Being

Author:Ashley Montagu

“Most people lose money because of lack of emotional discipline -the ability to keep their emotions removed from investment decisions. Dieting provides an apt analogy. Most people have the necessary knowledge to lose weight-that is they know that in order to lose weight you have to exercise and cut your intake of fats. However, despite this widespread knowledge, the vast majority of people who attempt to lose weight are unsuccessful. Why? Because they lack the emotional discipline.”

People Knows Order Loses Ability Decision Emotion Cutting Emotional Discipline Exercise Weight Majority Investment Fats Despite Analogies Dieting Lose Weight Unsuccessful

Author:Victor Sperandeo

“It is the soldier and the army, not parliamentary majorities and decisions, that have welded the German Empire together. I put my trust in the army.”

Together Decision Army Majority Soldier Empires Parliamentary

Author:Wilhelm II

“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.”

Persons Country America Religious Military Duty Horror Cost Conflict Diversity Majority Overwhelming Loyal

Author:Linda Chavez

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