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“The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.”

“Islam, as practiced by the vast majority of people, is a peaceful religion.”

People Majority Islam Peaceful Islam Is Peace

“The country was founded on the principle that primary role of government is to protect property from the majority, and so it remains.”

Country Government Principles Roles Protect Remains Majority Property Primaries Role Of Government

Author:Noam Chomsky

“When I recall my teachers at school, I realise that half of them were abnormal. . . . We pupils of old Austria were brought up to respect old people and women. But on our professors we had no mercy; they were our natural enemies. The majority of them were somewhat mentally deranged, and quite a few ended their days as honest-to-God lunatics! . . . I was in particular bad odor with the teachers. I showed not the slightest aptitude for foreign languages - though I might have, had not the teacher been a congenital idiot. I could not bear the sight of him.”

“A majority can do anything.”

Can Do Majority

Author:Joseph Gurney Cannon

“Democracy appears to me potentially a higher form of political organization than any kind of dictatorship. But if it turns out that in America, which could afford a decent living for everyone, the comfortable majority is willing to condone the misery and abuse of a minority for an indefinite period, the exploitation by the majority becomes as repugnant as exploitation by an oligarchy, and democracy loses half its supposed superiority.”

“Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.”

Ifs Numbers Devil Majority Saved Comparison

Author:Saint Augustine

“I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as any honest minority, however small, wants to read them. The remedy of the majority is not prohibition, but avoidance.”

Want Should Believe Long I Believe Honest Prejudice Majority Minorities Print Remedy Outrage Avoidance Prohibition

Author:H. L. Mencken

“If I could be really competent, that goes such a long way toward things, because the majority of things are not competent. If I can be competent, and have moments of originality, that's all I would ask for.”

Ifs Way Long I Can Moments Asks Majority If I Could Originality Long Way Competent

Author:Jon Stewart

“In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.”

Political Freedom Democracy Majority Organized Minorities Organize

Author:Jesse Jackson

“Once a photographer is convinced that the camera can lie and that, strictly speaking, the vast majority of photographs are camera lies, inasmuch as they tell only part of a story or tell it in distorted form, half the battle is won. Once he has conceded that photography is not a naturalistic medium of rendition and that striving for naturalism in a photograph is futile, he can turn his attention to using a camera to make more effective pictures.”

Stories Form Lying Turns Attention Half Battle Photography Cameras Majority Strive Photographer Photograph Convinced Mediums Naturalism Conceded

Author:Andreas Feininger

“I think it is a simple statement of principle that in a democracy you should make your MPs work harder for your vote and try and get at least majority support in their local area, and that in a nutshell is what AV does.”

Thinking Should Trying Doe Simple Principles Support Democracy Hard Work Areas Vote Harder Majority Statements Locals Work Harder Mps

Author:Nick Clegg

“I am very worried about this concentration of power, and it's not only because of Erdogan. We have the ballot box, but we don't have the culture of democracy. The government says: You see, we have the majority, we're entitled to do anything we want. But that's not democracy, that's majoritarianism.”

Want Government Culture Democracy Majority Boxes Worried Concentration Entitled Ballots Erdogan

Author:Elif Safak

“The majority of photographers still seek artistic effects, imitating other mediums of graphic expression. The result is a hybrid product that does not succeed in giving their work the most valuable characteristic it should have, - photographic quality.”

Source: Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti

“You mock those who blindly follow the majority...turn your attention now to those who are so dedicated to deviating from the norm that they would gladly cease breathing if it were suggested to them that inhalation was a form of conformity; for they deserve just as much scrutiny and ridicule.”

Ifs Form Turns Attention Deserve Majority Cease Breathing Conformity Dedicated Norm Ridicule Mock Scrutiny

Author:Demetri Martin

“The majority decision constitutionalizes a distinction between a red leather pouch and a paper bag that is necessarily based at least in some part on economic and class differences and perceptions.”

Differences Decision Class Economic Paper Perception Red Majority Distinction Bags Leather Paper Bags Class Differences

Author:David L. Bazelon

“So it seems that because of every syndrome and disorder we've invented in the past twenty years, the Los Angeles Times reported that 63% of American families are now considered dysfunctional. My God! That means we're the majority. We're normal! It's the people who have the mommy, the daddy, the brother, the sister, the little white picket fence - those people are the freaks, man!”

People Men Years Mean Littles Seems Past White Brother Normal Twenties Majority Los Angeles Disorder Freak Fence Daddy Syndromes American Family Picket Fences

Author:Christopher Titus

“I believe it is the photographer's function to reveal that which is concealed, even if it be repugnant to the majority, not merely to record what we see around us.”

Ifs Believe I Believe Records Function Majority Photographer Concealed

Author:Arthur Tress

“As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority.”

Men Long Speak Majority Rational Minorities Irrational

Author:Ayn Rand

“Protagoras did not know if the gods exist, but he held in any case they ought to be worshiped. Philosophy, according to him, had nothing edifying to teach, and for the survival of morals we must rely upon the thoughtlessness of the majority and their willingness to believe what they had been taught.”

Ifs Knows Believe Philosophy Moral Teach Cases Taught Ought Survival Majority Rely Willingness God Exists Rely Upon Thoughtlessness

Book:The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959

Source: The basic writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959

“Global warming activists claim a serious public concern presently exists and the overwhelming majority of scientists agrees humans are creating a global warming crisis. The survey of AMS meteorologists, however, shows no such overwhelming majority exists. Indeed, to the extent we can assign a majority scientific opinion to whether all the necessary components of a global warming crisis exist, the AMS survey shows the majority does not agree humans are creating a global warming crisis.”

Humans Doe Shows Opinion Serious Creating Concern Scientist Claims Crisis Agree Majority Global Warming Activist Overwhelming Components Surveys Meteorologists

Author:James Taylor

“You could make an analogy to a security guard who, three weeks prior, was mowing lawns for a living. The second he puts a uniform on and that badge, he's a man. I imagine the majority of us have felt the wrath of the over-zealous security guard guy. Is there something lying dormant in the man, that's waiting to be pumped up with that kind of power? I don't know. Does it reveal him? I don't know. Does it change him? I don't know.”

Knows Men Kind Doe Lying Guy Three Felt Waiting Imagine Week Security He Man Majority Uniforms Wrath Lawns Analogies Badges Dormant Zealous Security Guards Mowing Mowing The Lawn

Author:Johnny Depp

“In my practice, the majority of mutation carriers choose mastectomy; however, for those without cancer, they have much more control over the timing. For younger women, we might wait until they have found a life partner, or until after childbearing. Older women who find out they carry a mutation have unwittingly escaped a large percentage of their risk, and therefore, the calculated future risk is not necessarily a daunting number.”

Might Found Waiting Numbers Practice Risk Majority Cancer Partners Timing Percentages Carrier Mutation Older Women Life Partner Childbearing Mastectomy

Author:Kristi Funk

“I feel very lucky to have served under some great bosses. The majority of them were men, but I have also had a few women. In many ways, I feel like media is pretty neutral when it comes to gender.”

Men Way Feels Media Lucky Majority Gender Boss Great Boss

Author:Megan Alexander

“When you arrive really inside the discussion of race, practically they institute a Mexican-ness, a Latin-ness, a racial community that just isn't true. So, we know who are the people that have the majority of power, access and privileges in Mexico, and they are white Mexicans.”

People Knows Community White Race Majority Privilege Access Discussion Latin Mexico Mexican Institute

Author:Bocafloja

“We live in a country [USA] where the belief is that anyone can succeed, but for so many here, and for the majority of the world, that's not the case. In many parts of the world, women and poor people are at a huge disadvantage - certain rights and protections don't exist, and they don't have the chance of upward mobility.”

People World Country Certain Belief Chance Poor Cases Rights Huge Succeed Majority Protection Usa Poor People Disadvantages Mobility Upward Mobility

Author:Joy Bryant

“There is often variations of evil on both sides of the war. What we have to decide is whether or not regime change is a good idea. It's what the neoconservatives have wanted. It's what the vast majority of those on the stage want.”

Want Ideas War Wanted Evil Sides Stage Majority Good Ideas Regimes Both Sides Variation Regime Change

Author:Rand Paul

“That may not be a majority position in my party, but that's down the road. You can't even begin that process until you prove to people - not just pass a law that says you're gonna bring illegal immigration under control. You're gonna have to do it and prove to people that it's working.”

People May Law Process Party Position Prove Majority Immigration Illegal Down The Road Illegal Immigration

Author:Marco Rubio

“The vast majority of Americans want a government that creates the conditions for them to have a chance to get into the middle class, the kind of growth and the kind of educational opportunities. Most people would - the vast majority of Americans would much rather have a job that pays more than a welfare check.”

People Want Kind Government Jobs Opportunity Growth Chance Pay Class Middle Conditions Majority Educational Checks Welfare Middle Class

Author:Marco Rubio

“I feel like the vast majority of the world's problems would disappear if suddenly everyone on the planet were relatively self-aware and capable of honest self-love and compassion.”

Ifs World Feels Self Problem Compassion Honest Planets Self Love Capable Majority Disappear Love And Compassion

Author:Moby

“But it's clear to me that us slow-poke writers are a dying breed. It's amazing how thoroughly my young writing students have internalized the new machine rhythm, the rush many of my young writers are in to publish. The majority don't want to sit on a book for four, five years. The majority don't want to listen to the silence inside and outside for their artistic imprimatur. The majority want to publish fast, publish now.”

Want Writing Years Book Young Silence Clear Five Four Dying Students Machines Majority Rhythm Artistic Five Years Publish Poke Young Writers Inside And Outside

Author:Junot Diaz

“I thought in 1965 that my job was to convince most Americans to be against the war. So I spent summers knocking on doors, handing out literature, trying to talk to people who didn't agree with me, trying to get them to see the war was wrong. And by 1968 a majority of Americans did oppose the war.”

People Trying War Jobs Literature Doors Summer Agree Majority Convince Knocking Knocking On Doors

Author:Bill Ayers

“The majority of companies on this planet are publicly driven engines. They're always the last ones to change. They're not only the biggest polluters, but they're the biggest providers of services for the consumer. Government itself is one of the biggest polluters on the planet. The U.S. military pollutes the planet more than most other entities.”

Government Lasts Company Military Planets Majority Driven Consumers Engines Entity Providers

Author:Horst Rechelbacher

“I was looking for inspiration. I found it in California. The weather was always great, and the majority of San Diego seemed to be youth-and if you weren't 21 and couldn't get into the clubs, you'd go to a coffeehouse and hang out.”

Ifs Inspiration Found Youth Majority Clubs Weather California Hanging Out San Diego Looking For Inspiration

Author:Jason Mraz

“One man with courage is a majority.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.”

“The only reason the president insists on raising [tax] rates is because he knows it will destroy Republican unity, it will cause a complete fracture of the Republican majority in the house, it will hand him a Congress that he can then manipulate for the next two years at least because the Republicans will be neutered. ... This is entirely a political action, a way to get a surrender from the Republicans.”

“We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.”

May Country Nations Generations Succeed Majority

Book:Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

Source: Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph

“No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.”

People Long Discovery Vote Majority Republic Treasury Largesse

Author:Alexander Fraser Tytler

“The headlines are critically important. The majority of the public reads little else when deciding whether or not they are interested.”

Littles Important Majority Headlines

Author:John Caples

“Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.”

Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

“It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.”

Men Self Facts Grief Majority Self Control

Book:The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams

Source: The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams

“In trying to explain our political paralysis, analysts cite President Obama's tactical missteps, the obstinacy of congressional Republicans, rising partisanship in Washington, and the Senate filibuster, which has devolved into a super-majority threshold for important legislation. These are large factors to be sure, but that list neglects what may be the biggest culprit of all: the childishness, ignorance, and growing incoherence of the public at large.”

“A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth.”

Years Position Cost Lows Years Ago Majority Investment Convince Fund Investors Sensible Mentor Equity Index Funds

Author:Warren Buffett

“In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in that situation we pass.”

Knows Enough Company Situation Cases Industry Judgment Majority Sensible

Author:Warren Buffett

“More investment sins are probably committed by otherwise quite intelligent people because of "tax considerations" than from any other cause. One of my friends-a noted West Coast philosopher-maintains that a majority of life's errors are caused by forgetting what one is really trying to do. This is certainly the case when an emotionally supercharged element like taxes enters the picture (I have another friend-a noted East Coast philosopher who says it isn't the lack of representation he minds-it's the taxation).”

“It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.”

People Needs Should Law Majority Contrary Hungry Defined Handful Laws Of Nature Gorges

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence prevails, passive obedience is demanded by the workers, who are ruled by overseers, not of their own election, but appointed from above. In theory they may be the subjects of a democratic state; but in practice they spend the whole of their working lives as the subjects of a petty tyrant.”

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

“Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of 'racial tensions' is based on the actual behavior of the vast majority of white Americans, nothing white America could do will affect either many blacks' perceptions or the leftist libel.”

America Left Black White Behavior Perception Majority Tension Falsehood Leftists Animosity Libel Racial Tension

Author:Dennis Prager

“The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.”

Sometimes Majority Minorities

Author:George Bernard Shaw

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