Recep Tayyip Erdogan Quotes

We are against the majority tyrannizing the minority. But we are definitely against the minority tyrannizing the majority.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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• Just about the entirety of the first album, 'Brown Sugar,' I wrote it, the majority of that record in my bedroom in Richmond. And all of the demos for it were done on a four-track in my bedroom. I think EMI was a little leery of me being in the studio producing it on my own, which is what I was fighting for.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Me
  • Fighting
  • Always

• One with the law is a majority.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Law
  • Majority
  • Legal

• The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Free
  • Majority
  • Listens

• The great thing about Cairo is the vast majority of women wear some kind of head scarf, but they are also very fashion-conscious. They love bright colors.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Women
  • Kind
  • Thing

• The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • People
  • Kind
  • Majority

• One on God's side is a majority.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • God
  • Side
  • Majority

• You must make sure that the majority of the people are not marginalized.

  

  Najib Razak
  • People
  • You
  • Majority

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

  

  Mark Twain
  • Time
  • Majority
  • Pause

• We definitely have a majority in the Senate for McCain-Feingold, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Wolf
  • Majority
  • Senate

• The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Passion
  • Humans
  • Majority

• We shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Men
  • Women
  • Health

• I devote my life to the rebirth of the Jewish State, with a Jewish majority, on both sides of the Jordan.

  

  Ze'ev Jabotinsky
  • Life
  • Sides
  • Majority

• The majority of people do not accept my choices.

  

  Nadya Suleman
  • People
  • Choices
  • Majority

• Carolyn [Maloney] is the kind of legislator who, whether she's in the majority or the minority, whether her party is in the majority or the minority, she doesn't take "No" for an answer, and she frequently calls women leaders and say, "I think we should do this. This is really necessary for women." And so she hangs in there and gets bills passed when people think it's not possible.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • People
  • Women
  • She

• Every possible opinion is authored about everything. What's going to eventually happen is someone will look back on this period and have to sift through it. The overwhelming majority of those opinions are going to be ignored, because if every opinion is being offered, really no opinion is being offered.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Opinion
  • Period
  • Majority

• The majority of my training was as a drummer, and drummers are basically accompanists.

  

  Z'EV
  • Training
  • Majority
  • Drummer

• If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Force
  • Majority
  • Minority

• Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.

  

  Aristotle
  • Money
  • Democracy
  • Struggle

• [P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.

  

  George Will
  • Politics
  • Taxes
  • Continents

• Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Science
  • Psychology

• You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being like, "We are the end of music. We are the end of this tradition. Music is done."

  

  David Longstreth
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Tradition

• We are against the majority tyrannizing the minority. But we are definitely against the minority tyrannizing the majority.

  

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan
  • Majority
  • Tyrannizing