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“The danger which threatens us comes from Labour...Those who think that the Conservative or Unionist Party, standing as such and disavowing its Liberal allies, could return with a working majority are living in a fools paradise and, if they persist, may easily involve themselves and the country in dangers the outcome of which it is hard to predict.”

Author:Ilana Mercer

“Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.”

Aspect Majority Atheist Objectivity Pious True God

Book:First and last notebooks

Source: First and last notebooks

“In the past, the respect people had for religion meant that ethical practice was maintained through a majority following one religion or another. But this is no longer the case. We must therefore find some other way of establishing basic ethical principles.”

People Way Past Principles Practice Cases Ethics Majority Following Ethical Respect People Ethical Principles

Book:Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium

Source: Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium

“...it becomes clear that, given our diversity, no single religion satisfies all humanity. ... And since the majority does not practice religion, I am concerned to try to find a way to serve all humanity without appealing to religious faith.”

Way Trying Doe Humanity Given Religious Practice Clear Diversity Ethics Concerned Majority Religious Faith

Author:Dalai Lama

“How can U fairly assess someone from the outside looking in ... majority of the times you will be wrong.”

Majority Outside Looking In

Author:Carmelo Anthony

“The successful politician owes his power to the fact that he moves within the accepted framework of thought, that he thinks and talks conventionally. It would be almost a contradiction in terms for a politician to be a leader in the field of ideas. His task in a democracy is to find out what the opinions held by the largest number are, not to give currency to new opinions which may become the majority view in some distant future.”

“There is no question that, if you look at name recognition and celebrity, my opponent is far-and-away ahead. I think that if you put my beliefs in one column and her positions in another column, I am almost convinced that a majority of the people in the Democratic Party would support my beliefs.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Names Belief Party Support Position Majority Democratic Convinced Recognition Opponents Democratic Party Columns

Author:Jonathan Tasini

“According to current birthrate projections, France will be a majority Muslim country anyway in about 50 years. I get a lot of e-mails from Americans who think that Europeans are spineless. And I think they're right.”

Thinking Years Country Majority Currents France Mail Projection Spineless

Author:Pat Condell

“For the majority of English people there are only two religions, Roman Catholic, which is wrong, and the rest, which don't matter.”

People Two Matter Religion Catholic Majority Roman Catholic Two Religions

Book:Old Men Forget

Source: Old Men Forget

“I suspect that the vast majority of people, not knowing in advance whether they will either end up in a permanently vegetative state or be diagnosed with cancer, would prefer that any resources that would be spent on PVS care be reallocated to cancer research - or some similar enterprise that has the potential to help human beings who might actually recover.”

People Humans Ends States Helping Might Would Be Care Human Beings Knowing Research Resources Majority Cancer Enterprise Suspects Not Knowing Cancer Research

Author:Jacob M. Appel

“All we can say is that, as the result of a process which went on from the fourth century to about the eighth, a standard type of text was produced, which is found in the vast majority of the manuscripts that have come down to us. At least ninety-six per cent of the extant manuscripts of the Greek New Testament are later than the eighth century; and of those only a handful preserve traces of the other types of text which were in existence before the adoption of the standard text, and out of which it was created.”

Found Process Results Existence Century Type Six Standards Majority Preserves Greek Fourth Cents Adoption Testament Ninety Handful New Testament Manuscripts

Author:Frederic G. Kenyon

“Democracy means that if this man,you Miss and I will be trapped on an island, we having a majority of votes will decide that you have to sleep with us. That's the Democracy. And with 2/3 votes we can even put that in the constitution.”

Ifs Men Mean Sleep Democracy Missing Vote Constitution Majority Islands Trapped

Author:Janusz Korwin-Mikke

“Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying "Enough!" He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable - this is Marcos.”

Way Enough Speak Groups Conscience Majority Uncomfortable Minorities Shut Up Oppressed Resisting Marcos

Author:Subcomandante Marcos

“One’s life, liberty and the products of one’s labor were not intended to be up for grabs by grubby, greedy majorities. Contra classical natural law theory, legal positivism equates justice with the law of the state. However, from the fact that most Americans want others to fund or subsidize their health care, it does not follow that they have such a right. A need is not a right.”

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Author:Ilana Mercer

“The Little Guy, behind whom politicians strategically coalesce — thumping majorities prevail in a democracy — cannot abide by a reality in which greater wealth affords greater "access."”

Democracy Majority

Author:Ilana Mercer

“If the question is do people (in the Liberal Party) believe that human beings are the main cause of the planet warming, then I'd say a majority don't accept that position.”

People Ifs Believe Humans Causes Human Beings Party Accepting Position Planets Majority Liberal Party

Author:Nick Minchin

“We consider ourselves to be free because no one in our society is allowed unlimited powerno leader, faction, party or 'class', no majority, no government, church, corporation, trade, or professional association or trade union. The secret of its freedom is that it is composed of a multitude of organisations in the constitution of the best of which is reproduced that diffusion of power which is characteristic of the whole.”

“The birth control pill, to a great degree, made possible the (hetero)sexual revolution. Yet those who developed oral contraceptives did not intend their work to promote what the majority of Americans at the time called "promiscuity." Doctors generally refused to prescribe the pill to women who were not married; the Supreme Court did not rule this practice unconstitutional until 1972.”

Made Practice Revolution Birth Degrees Married Doctors Majority Court Supreme Supreme Court Pills Birth Control Promiscuity Unconstitutional Contraceptives Sexual Revolution Birth Control Pills

Author:Beth Bailey

“I tend to be a loner I think a lot of social theorists are like that. On one level, the majority of the most important people to me are people who I have imaginary conversations with in the deep of the night: I'm often in conversation with Max Weber or Karl Marx or someone like that. Those are the people I'm closest to and that have had the most influence on me!”

People Thinking Important Night Social Levels Influence Conversation Majority Imaginary Closest Max Loner Theorists Weber

Author:George Ritzer

“Yesterday I wrote the majority of a song called 'Burn the Nightclub Down' which was about kind of driving into Cleveland full of dread at the prospect of playing at this night club and actually just the night before I had called my girlfriend whose birthday it was. And it's her birthday and here I am on the road in some hellhole in Ann Arbor in Michigan.”

Kind Night Song Majority Clubs Driving Yesterday Girlfriend Dread My Girlfriend Here I Am Michigan Cleveland Nightclubs Night Club Arbors

Author:Rhett Miller

“A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.”

Men Desire Justice Principles Majority Constant Dues Every Man Code Perpetual Justinian

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“The Muslim Brotherhood is a religiously conservative group. They are a minority in Egypt. They are not a majority of the Egyptian people, but they have a lot of credibility because all the other liberal parties have been smothered for 30 years.”

People Years Has Beens Party Groups Majority Conservative Minorities Brotherhood Egypt Credibility Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood Liberal Party

Author:Mohamed ElBaradei

“The big news is the midterm elections. Last night Republicans picked up a dozen seats in the House to give them their biggest majority since World War II. Or as they put it, 'Time to party like it's 1939!'”

World Giving War Bigs Lasts Night House Party Republican News Election Majority War Of The Worlds Seats World War Ii Dozen World War I Last Night Midterms Midterm Elections Big News

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“Politicians are really getting desperate. In fact, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sent out a final fundraising email to Democrats with the subject line, 'I'm begging.' Because what better way to show you're a strong leader than acting like you're drunk and dialing your ex?”

“You're either a rationalist, or you're not. And the good news is a recent poll found 20% of adults under 30 say they are rationalists, and have figured out that Santa Claus and Jesus are really the same guy. Now, 20% is hardly a majority. But it's a bigger minority than blacks, jews, homosexuals, NRA members, teachers, or seniors... and it's certainly enough to stop being shy about expressing the opinion that we're not the crazy ones!”

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Author:Bill Maher

“...we must realize that a vast majority of believers are still searching and will continue to search for the being who is the "source of human good." Those who seek with clear heads and sincere hearts will in some measure find. Of course the true seeker will realize that there is no one way to find God. To be sure, there are many possible ways of finding God.”

Way Humans Heart Stills Courses Realizing Clear Source Findings Majority Believer One Way Sincere Seekers Finding God Clear Head Sincere Heart

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.”

“The vast majority of the students I have taught have become self-sufficient and confident individuals who enjoy their lives.”

Self Individual Enjoy Students Taught Buddhism Majority Sufficient Rama Self Sufficient

Author:Frederick Lenz

“And what has come to prevail in democracies is the very reverse of beneficial, in those, that is, which are regarded as the most democratically run. The reason for this lies in the failure properly to define liberty. For there are two marks by which democracy is thought to be defined: "sovereignty of the majority" and "liberty." "Just" is equated with what is equal, and the decision of the majority as to what is equal is regarded as sovereign; and liberty is seen in terms of doing what one wants.”

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Author:Aristotle

“We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority.”

May Wisdom Politics Pay Economy Generations Periods Majority Bounds Debt Liberalism Posterity Saddles

Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816

“The totalitarian toil-state originates in the propertylessness of the majority.”

States Wisdom Politics Economy Majority Liberalism Toil

Book:Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

Source: Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

“The majority of the ten thousand states of mind cannot be discussed. It is rather a question of teaching a person to step outside the conceptual framework they have and transmitting blocks of awareness to an individual psychically.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“Could there be anything resembling a free enterprise economy, if wealth and property were concentrated in the hands of a few, while the great majority owned little more than the shirts on their backs?”

Ifs Littles Wisdom Hands Politics Wealth Economy Majority Property Shirts Liberalism Enterprise Free Enterprise

Author:Ronald Reagan

“For the majority of Americans, collectivist or nationalized economy is morally wrong and therefore unjust. For them, free enterprise meets their keen sense of justice.”

Wisdom Politics Justice Economy Majority Liberalism Enterprise Unjust Free Enterprise

Author:Ndabaningi Sithole

“There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country.”

Country Desire Religious Powerful Atheism Identity Majority Positive Atheism Religious Identity

Author:Jack Balkin

“Religious people are not entitled to special rights, even if they are elected leaders or in the majority; they are not allowed to force everyone to support their religion.”

People Ifs Force Religious Leader Support Rights Atheism Special Majority Positive Atheism Entitled Elected Leaders

Author:Ed Buckner

“The majority has no right to impose its religion on the rest. That's a tradition as sacred as the Constitution itself to this country.”

Country Atheism Tradition Constitution Sacred Majority Positive Atheism

Author:William Rainey Harper

“Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved. When atheists become the majority in this country, I don't think the theists are going to be glad to have "one nation under no God" inserted in the Pledge of Allegiance.”

People Thinking Knows Want Country Government Nations Atheism Involved Agree Majority Atheist Positive Atheism Glad Pledge Allegiance Theist Pledge Of Allegiance

Author:Michael Newdow

“The United States is filled with power places. The majority of them, however, are to be found either along the West Coast and in the southwestern United States or along the Eastern Seaboard.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's important to know that the vast majority of people who were excited in 2008 are still really enthusiastic. We've got more volunteers now than ever, and they're engaged, they're motivated, they're not paying attention to the ups and downs of polls or Washington.”

People Knows Stills Important Attention Majority Excited Pay Attention Engaged Motivated Volunteer Polls Enthusiastic Ups & Downs

Author:Barack Obama

“I take every role seriously. Personally, I never look at any role as Michael White. I've done that my entire life. I've never excluded myself because of color. It's never been part of the radar, when I look at anything I do. The majority of the roles that I've played have had very little to do with being black. It doesn't matter what color you are.”

Looks Littles Matter Done Black White Roles Color Majority Excluded Radar

Author:Michael Jai White

“You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction while we've still got a majority ranting about gods, devils, souls, and absolute morality, and using an ancient book written by ignorant nomads as a guide.”

Needs Made Stills Book Soul Progress Written Morality Ethics Devil Absolutes Majority Ancient Guides Ignorant Rational Code Damn Nomad Morality And Ethics

Author:Doug Graham

“The parliamentary principle of decision by majorities only appears during quite short periods of history, and those are always periods of decadence in nations and States.”

States Nations Decision Principles Periods Majority Decadence Parliamentary

Author:Adolf Hitler

“It would be a healthy exercise for every politician to look in the mirror every morning and remind himself that he holds office only because, in a two-man race against another mediocrity, a modest majority of those half-informed people who imagined that their votes mattered reckoned that he was the lesser evil. And they weren't too sure about that.”

People Men Looks Two Would Be Evil Race Half Morning Politician Exercise Healthy Office Vote Mirrors Majority Mediocrity Every Morning Modest Lesser Evil

Author:Joseph Sobran

“The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture. In a church all the members are active. He [God] appointed some to take oversight of the work so that it might be carried on efficiently. It was never His thought that the majority of the believers should devote themselves exclusively to secular affairs and leave church matters to a group of spiritual specialists.”

Should Matter Whole Might Spiritual Church Groups Members Management Majority Affair Active Believer Scripture Secular Specialists Oversight

Author:Watchman Nee

“I really don't want to produce artwork that does not have meaning beyond simple decorative values. I want to use public space to create a public voice, and a public consciousness about the presence of people who are, in fact, the majority of the population but who are not represented in any visual way. By telling their stories we are giving voice to the voiceless and visualizing the whole of the American story.”

People Way Want Giving Doe Whole Facts Stories Use Values Voice Simple Space Consciousness Produce Majority Population Visuals Artwork Voiceless Visualizing Giving Voice

Author:Judy Baca

“The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.”

Men May Important Use Used Millions Majority One Man Beneficial

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“The parliamentary principle of vesting legislative power in the decision of the majority rejects the authority of the individual and puts a numerical quota of anonymous heads in its place. In doing so it contradicts the aristocratic principle, which is a fundamental law of nature.”

Law Individual Decision Principles Authority Fundamentals Majority Rejects Laws Of Nature Parliamentary Quota Aristocratic

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of pride, hatred, and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; and men do reverence before false gods of nationalism and materialism. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.”

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

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