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“The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything. With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your emails or your wife's phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your emails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.”

Ifs Humans I Can Use Wanted Records Wife Communication Built Majority Phones Credit Cards Capability Email Infrastructure Credit Card Nsa Passwords Government Spying

Author:Edward Snowden

“Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.”

Used Hurt Views Example Majority Patriotism Disagreement Hurt Feelings

Author:Vic Snyder

“I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.”

Felt Comfortable My Friends Majority Shy Awkward Momentum Shyness

Author:Steven Spielberg

“Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.”

Justice Taken Accounts Majority Minorities Majority And Minority

Book:Individualist anarchist pamphlets

Source: Individualist anarchist pamphlets

“Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally - perhaps more than equally, because more boldly - rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if intrusted with power.”

Ifs Men Passion Justice Fame Majority Guarantees Minorities Liable

Book:The collected works of Lysander Spooner

Source: The collected works of Lysander Spooner

“To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.”

Rights Ought Please Majority Minorities

Book:No Treason: No. 1-

Source: No Treason: No. 1-

“Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of resources, the vast majority of energy and the places where a huge percentage of the decisions about how systems are built and how products designed, etc., happen.”

Happens Energy Decision Cities Economy Creation Products Huge Resources Built Responsible Majority Etc Percentages

Author:Alex Steffen

“The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.”

Men Way Might Young Desire Fashion Fine Horse Majority Luxury France Young Man Fashionable

Book:Love

Source: Love

“The important thing for the survival of the Thai society is that the majority of those who work, both in the government and the private sector, still strive to work in the same direction; this is why the Thai nation still stands.”

Stills Important Government Nations Survival Important Things Majority Strive Private Sector Thai

Author:Bhumibol Adulyadej

“Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece.”

May Long Self Problem Literature Pieces Fashion Students College Periods Majority Articles Procrastination Finishing Surveys Procrastinating College Students Putting Things Off

Author:James Surowiecki

“Since the Protestant majority in Northern Ireland wants to remain a part of Great Britain, and since Ireland itself has shown little interest in reunification, the IRA's prospects for success through political channels have always been limited.”

Want Littles Political Interest Majority Britain Ireland Protestants Prospects Great Britain Northern Ireland Ira Reunification

Author:James Surowiecki

“When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.”

Thinking Mind Ability Vision Majority Ability To See Great Vision Above And Beyond Visions And Dreams

Book:The Life@work Book

Source: The Life@work Book

“By creating an urgent crisis that can only be solved by those fluent in a language too complex for ordinary people to understand, the Wall Street crowd has turned the vast majority of Americans into non-participants in their own political future.”

People Political Language Streets Wall Creating Ordinary Crisis Majority Complexes Crowds Ordinary People Urgent Participants Fluent

Author:Matt Taibbi

“In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.”

Made States Use Political Politics Individual United Opinion United States Ready Majority Multitudes Relieved Forming Opinions

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.”

Ifs Writing May America Freedom Liberty Opinion Please Raises Majority Barriers Freedom Of Speech Woe Formidable Liberty Of Speech

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.”

World Way Love Doe Country States America United United States Majority Property Doctrine Display Other Countries Inclination

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.”

People Men Kind Art Food Art Is Majority Very Good Architecture Works Of Art Deep Thought

Book:What Is Art?

Source: What Is Art?

“What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?”

Seems Black Benefits Empowerment Majority Elites Recycled

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

Inspirational Wisdom Motivational Success Time Religion Politics Sides Change Business Poverty Courage Successful Society Greatness Inspirational Life Majority Atheist Individuality Libertarian Insane Being Yourself Finding Yourself Conformity Be You Business Success Pauses Conform Reflecting Critical Thinking My Future Nonconformity Motivational Business Humorists Just Be Yourself Motivational Success Inspirational Success Conformist Best Success Happiness And Success Famous Motivational Just Being You About Success Inspirations Being Yourself Pausing Motivational Action Cool Motivational Nonconformist Courage To Change Majority Rule Thinking Of Yourself Inspirational Character Keep You Motivated Conformity And Individuality Motivation And Change Life Best Inspirational Religion Politics Taking A Break War Propaganda Daily Business Majority Vote Political Wisdom Majority And Minority Silent Majority Short Motivational Life Keep To Yourself Pause Button Conventional Life

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

“A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.”

Should Able Majority Congress Senators

Author:Tom Udall

“The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.”

People Government Political Class Return Genius Taxes Majority Corruption Heavy Questioning Ruling Comeback Government Programs

Author:Gore Vidal

“The majority of the world's Muslims do not believe that terrorism is a legitimate strategy or that Islam is incompatible with democracy.”

World Believe Democracy Majority Strategy Islam Terrorism

Author:Gijs de Vries

“Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?”

World Want Country Facts Helping America Term Simple Dangerous Youth Truth Is One Day Majority Violent Despite Other Countries Starks Offenders Term Life

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.”

Use Lying Values Opportunity Chance Majority Great Things Great Power

Author:John Boehner

“But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on principle, checking Washington's power and leading the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable government.”

People Government President Voice Mistake Principles Standing Majority Tonight

Author:John Boehner

“Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress. These women have a very tough time, so much is expected of them.”

People Men America Community Progress Men And Women Tough Majority South Expected Hungry Inequality Latin Asia Tough Times Latin America Holding Back South Asia Rural Communities

Author:Dionne Warwick

“The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.”

May Stories Majority Folks

Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Ifs Knows Law Nations Accepting Democracy Trump Constitution Majority Reviews Popularity Preference Judicial Statutes Supervision Unconstitutional Judicial Review

Author:George Will

“The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.”

Two Challenges Situation Economic Century Planets Majors Majority 21st Century

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.”

Perfect Majority Gentleman Ancestor Not Perfect Family History Mammals Ladies And Gentlemen Genealogy

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“The majority of my blood is Asian.”

Blood Majority Asian

Author:Tiger Woods

“In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.”

Want Giving Education Democracy Majority Educate Accustomed

Author:Carter G. Woodson

“The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.”

People College Development Majority Worthless Finishing Finishing Touches Best College

Book:The Mis-Education of the Negro

Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro

“Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.”

Life Life Is Death Literature Solitude Majority Desert Life And Death Sympathy Condolence Message Young Life

Author:Edward Young

“Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.”

Way Democracy Plans Mercy Majority Representatives Another Way Describing

Book:The Tempting of America

Source: The Tempting of America

“Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way.”

Ifs Thinking Way Asks Answers Cities Majority Chef Tokyo

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.”

People Want Kind Has Beens Brother My Family Institutions Majority Dare Likes My Brother Affected Streaks Schizoid

Book:David Bowie: The Last Interview

Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview

“Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.”

Looks Done Waiting Majority Reform Senate Senators Reformation Another Day Utilizing Tomorrow Is Another Day Health Reform

Author:Barbara Boxer

“A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.”

Majority Shoes Magazines Features Articles Ruined Amazing Things

Author:Caitlin Moran

“In Britain, polls show large majorities in favour of mansion taxes and higher taxes on the finance sector.”

Shows Higher Taxes Majority Finance Britain Favour Polls Mansions

Author:Geoff Mulgan

“Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.”

Kind Film Actors Imagination Fantasy Directors Hatred Majority Settling Locked Layers

Author:Danny Boyle

“Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?”

Enough Humor Bigs Funny Science Sides Fool Towns Majority Fools And Foolishness Huckleberry

Author:Mark Twain

“To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.”

Love Self Majority True Love Versions Exception

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The Ambassador and the General were briefing me on the....the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice.”

People World Want Justice Majority Peaceful Ambassadors Bushism Free World Funny Bush Briefing

Author:George W. Bush

“It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health.”

People Ideas Reason Facts Feelings Certain Share Prove Majority Mental Health Validity Validation

Book:The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk

Source: The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk

“The terrible tyranny of the majority.”

Terrible Majority Tyranny Tyranny Of The Majority

Book:Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”

“I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of life would be left out of this story, this sliver of a version of the life I'd known. But I tried anyway.”

Matter Stories Would Be Left Known Impossible Paper No Matter What Majority Forgotten Versions Left Out Sudan

Author:Dave Eggers

“Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.”

Thinking Writing Book Form Reading Common Majority Book Lover Business Planning

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it's certain they will win.”

Political Certain Politics Winning Known Understood Majority Idiot Voting

Author:Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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