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“Without peace and without the overwhelming majority of people that believe in peace defending it, working for it, believing in it, security can never really be a reality.”

People Believe Reality Security Majority Overwhelming

Author:King Hussein I

“For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great beauty to it.”

People Reality Difficult Majority Places To Live

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“We can't ... take that piece of reality in this business and set that aside and say, well, that doesn't count. And the Republicans on my side understand that the majority is in fact up for grabs next year. So there's not a decision made up here that doesn't have that factor coursing through that current.”

Years Wells Made Facts Reality Next Sides Decision Pieces Republican Majority Currents Factors Next Year Decisions Made

Author:Chuck Hagel

“My suspicion is that we're near a near-term low. The reality is the majority of the selling short-term is over with - the market doesn't want to go down.”

Want Reality Term Lows Majority Selling Suspicion Short Term

Author:Peter Green

“I believe the president wants this bill, and I know he's taken some steps to bring it about, ... The reality is that with a majority of the members of the House ready to vote for this bill, the speaker refused to call a roll call.”

Knows Want Believe Reality House I Believe President Steps Taken Ready Members Vote Bills Majority Speakers

Author:Joe Lieberman

“We knew it was coming but there were some rumors of a possible 50 basis point cut (a half a percentage point) and every time that happens it sets us up for disappointments. The reality is a very large majority of people don't know how to react to this so they're taking their cue from the market. It's really indecision.”

People Knows Reality Happens Half Know How Cutting Bases Majority Disappointment Percentages Rumor Indecision

Author:Charles Payne

“At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.”

People Needs Stills Reality Community Majority Faults Sensitive Fierce Severe Affliction Deprivation

Author:Ibrahim Babangida

“The reality is the majority of people are talking about it, but haven't launched it.”

People Reality Talking Havens Majority

Author:Suranga Chandratillake

“When I'm up on stage, I don't think about anything except the song I'm singing. Anyway, the majority of my audience is female, and I can't think that many of them want to see me a French maid outfit somehow!”

Thinking Want I Can Song Audience Stage Singing Female Majority Maids

Author:Louise Redknapp

“Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.”

Government Democracy Majority Experiments Minorities Sentiments Righteous Sane Inherent Unselfish

Author:William Allen White

“Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?”

Trying Might Political Office Election Majority Loser Election Day Always Wrong

Author:Robert Breault

“Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community... when any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, inalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal.”

People Government Purpose Found Nations Community Common Security Revolution Ought Benefits Majority Contrary Reform Judged Inadequate Abolish

Author:George Mason

“Revolutions can no longer be achieved by minorities. No matter how energetic and intelligent a minority may be, it is not enough, in modern times at least, to make a revolution. The cooperation of a majority, and a large majority too, is needed.”

May Matter Enough Modern Revolution Needed Intelligent Majority Minorities Cooperation Energetic Modern Times

Author:Jean Jaures

“The majority of human conflict comes from people just feeling disrespected.”

People Humans Feelings Evil Conflict Majority Disrespected

Book:The Art of Waging Peace: A Strategic Approach to Improving Our Lives and the World

Source: The Art of Waging Peace: A Strategic Approach to Improving Our Lives and the World

“The team with the best players usually does win - this is why you need to invest the majority of your time and energy in developing your people.”

People Needs Doe Winning Energy Player Team Building Majority Developing Team Building Best Players Time And Energy

Author:Jack Welch

“If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them.”

Ifs Should America Father Nations Principles Majority Historical Minorities Our Father

Book:No Treason: No. 1-

Source: No Treason: No. 1-

“When a legislature decides to steal some of our rights and plans to use police force to accomplish it, what's the real difference between them and the thief? Darn little! They hide behind the excuse that they're legislating democratically. The fact they do it by a majority vote has no moral significance whatsoever. Numerical might does not constitute right, no more than a lynch mob can justify its act because a majority participated.”

“A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.”

Wells Government Political Lying Born Democracy Rich Majority Sovereign Oligarchy

Author:Aristotle

“The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which they generally receive. They apply themselves only to the material side of their art, they learn to jump more or less high, they strive mechanically to execute a number of steps, and like children, who utter a great many words devoid of sense and relation, they execute many phrases of steps devoid of taste and grace.”

Children Art Sides Numbers Steps Grace Materials Taste Relation Majority Strive Dues Phrases Great Men Dancer Ballet Defects Bad Education

Author:Jean-Georges Noverre

“The country will some day pay for the stupidities of those who were in the majority on this commission. They know as much about the future of aviation as they do about the sign writing of the Aztecs.”

Knows Writing Country Pay Majority Stupidity Aviation Air Power Airpower

Author:Jimmy Doolittle

“The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.”

Men Sometimes Struggle He Man Survival Majority Minorities One Man Struggle For Freedom

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“Although the vast majority of walkers never even think of using a walking staff, I unhesitatingly include it among the foundations of the house that travels on my back.”

Thinking House Walks Journey Walking Foundation Majority Wander Hiking Staff Trekking Strolling Sauntering Walkers Backpacking

Book:The Complete Walker IV

Source: The Complete Walker IV

“Small and mid-sized companies in this country historically have been responsible for creating the overwhelming majority of new jobs in the private sector. One of the most-common misconceptions about our private enterprise system is that large companies, such as the Fortune 500, are integral to the process of job creation in this country. The truth is quite the opposite.”

“Small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please about a given subject. But there are usually proponents and opponents of every propaganda, both of whom are equally eager to convince the majority.”

Thinking Persons Given Groups Subjects Please Majority Competition Propaganda Opponents Convince Manipulation Small Groups

Book:Propaganda

Source: Propaganda

“Like a majority of Americans in recent years, I came to understand that fear of homosexuality was leading our governments ... to deny the equal rights to an entire segment of our population that are afforded all of us under the Constitution.”

Years Government Rights Equal Constitution Majority Population Deny Homosexuality Equal Rights

Author:Ronnie Musgrove

“What’s so curious about human beings is that we can look deeply into the future, foresee disaster, and still do nothing in the present to stop it. The majority of people on this planet, they’re overwhelmed with concerns about their immediate well being.”

People Humans Wells Looks Stills Human Beings Planets Concern Majority Disaster Curious Well Being Overwhelmed

Author:Daniel Gilbert

“I have written on numerous occasions that there is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists. While Americans prefer to imagine that the vast majority of American Muslims are civic-minded patriots who accept wholeheartedly the parameters of American pluralism, this proposition has actually never been proven.”

Community Accepting Imagine Written Majority Peaceful Occasions Distinction Imagine That Patriot Proven Propositions Civics Parameters Wholeheartedly Pluralism Muslim Community Civic Minded

Author:Robert Spencer

“The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting with the Internet, and Governments are abusing that necessity in secret to extend their powers beyond what is necessary and appropriate.”

People Country Government Secret Internet Majority Appropriate Interacting Developed Country Government Spying

Author:Edward Snowden

“Elect us, hold us accountable, and make a judgment and then go from there. But I do tell you that if the Democrats win, and have substantial majorities, the Congress of the United States will be more bipartisan.”

Ifs States Winning United United States Judgment Majority Democrat Congress Bipartisan

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet's climate system into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced - a catastrophe of our own making.”

“Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is. ... Our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and the way of life of the middle class. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized and corrupt. They are right; but we must begin from where we are if we are to build power for change, and the power and the people are in the middle class majority.”

People Ifs Way War Action America Values White Class Middle Organization Majority Decades Middle Class Rebel Rejected Bourgeois Materialistic Degenerates Rules For Radicals

Author:Saul Alinsky

“Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.”

Bigs Care Pay Secret Attention Media Percent Majority Jazz Clubs Mainstream Mainstream Media No One Cares

Author:Robert Glasper

“The majority of the people I work with are more than musicians and singers, they are personal friends and friends help each other.”

People Helping Musician Majority Singers Helping Each Other

Author:George Duke

“To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.”

People Opportunity Chance Economic Expectations Fairs Majority Democratic Lifetime Committed Aspiration Fulfilled Nigeria Vistas

Author:Ibrahim Babangida

“I realized that I was connected to Africa. I wasn't just a Colored girl. I was part of a whole world that wanted a better life. I'm part of a majority and not a minority. My life has been a life of growth. If you're not growing, you're not going to understand real love. If you're not reaching out to help others then you're shrinking. My life has been active. I'm not a spectator”

“I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country.”

Believe Country I Believe My Own Majority Prepared Merit Brazil

Author:Dilma Rousseff

“I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed, gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.”

Used Left Felt Gay Members Majority Jew Minorities Gay Pride Left Hand Left Handed

Author:Barney Frank

“The Green Party represents that majority point of view within the U.S.”

Views Party Green Majority Point Of View Green Party

Author:Peter Camejo

“I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.”

Thinking I Can Important Movement Method Majority Accepted Reform Minorities Indifferent Energetic Presenting

Book:One Voice: Pacifist Writings from the Second World War

Source: One Voice: Pacifist Writings from the Second World War

“We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black people... The question for black people is not, when is the white man going to give us our rights, or when is he going to give us good education for our children, or when is he going to give us jobs-if the white man gives you anything-just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.”

People Ifs Men Giving Children Jobs Remember Political Winning Black White Rights Ready Office Our Children Majority Black People White Man Remember When Good Education

Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“We want...as soon as possible to see a majority of the Republican Party in the hands of pro-family Christians by 1996.”

Want Hands Christian Party Republican Majority Scary Republican Party

Author:Pat Robertson

“A politician, he knows that the majority cares little for ideals or integrity. What it craves is display.”

Littles Care Integrity Ideals Majority Display Crave

Author:Emma Goldman

“Since these early days, I have seen and have experienced many types of discrimination and all of them were rooted in the fear of people that were different than the majority.”

People Different Type Majority Discrimination Rooted

Author:Tim Cook

“By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded.”

Television Tvs Summer Majority Stores Google Embedded

Author:Eric Schmidt

“You know that a majority of the medical costs that are bankrupting families, companies, and nations could be eliminated with better nutrition.”

Knows Nations Company Cost Majority Medical Nutrition

Book:Voices of the Food Revolution: You Can Heal Your Body and Your World with Food!

Source: Voices of the Food Revolution: You Can Heal Your Body and Your World with Food!

“My single greatest challenge is to remain centered and loving in an overwhelmingly nonvegan world. In today's world, cruelty and exploitation of other beings - human and non-human alike - are accepted, practiced, and profited from by most every institution of society - from commerce and science to education and entertainment. Unfortunately, the vast majority of Homo sapiens are either unaware of the cruelty or accept it as unavoidable and even normal.”

World Humans Today Challenges Accepting Normal Institutions Majority Entertainment Accepted Cruelty Vegetarian Commerce Exploitation Being Human Homo Sapiens Today's World

Author:Michael Klaper

“I committed myself totally, fully, but I didn't succeed in convincing a majority of French... I didn't succeed in making the values we share win.”

Values Winning Share Succeed Majority Committed Convincing

Author:Nicolas Sarkozy

“The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.”

Majority Symphony Tombstone

Author:Dmitri Shostakovich

“In the vast majority of movies, everything is done for the audience. We are cued to laugh or cry, be frightened or relieved; Hitchcock called the movies a machine for causing emotions in the audience. Bresson (and Ozu) take a different approach. They regard, and ask us to regard along with them, and to arrive at conclusions about their characters that are our own. This is the cinema of empathy.”

Different Done Character Asks Emotion Audience Laughing Cry Approach Empathy Machines Regard Majority Conclusion Cinema Frightened Relieved Hitchcock Different Approach

Book:The Great Movies II

Source: The Great Movies II

“...we may be able to prove conclusively that all men are born with potentially brilliant intellects...and that the source of cultural creativity is the consciousness that springs from social cooperation and loving interaction...the majority of us live far below our potential, because of the oppressive nature of most societies.”

Men May Able Social Born Consciousness Music Creativity Source Prove Spring Majority Intellect Brilliant Cooperation Interaction

Author:John Blacking

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