Majority Quotes
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Aristotle -
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
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain -
I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
Adam Lambert -
One on God's side is a majority.
Wendell Phillips -
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 -
It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.
Friedrich Schiller -
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
George Bernard Shaw
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The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.
S. Jay Olshansky -
One with the law is a majority.
Calvin Coolidge -
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.
Woodrow Wilson -
The bill is emblematic of the attempt by the majority party to control every aspect of our lives.
Virginia Foxx -
The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.
Garrett Hardin -
The majority of the time with two strikes I'll choke up on the bat a little bit to try to stay as short as possible. It doesn't always work out like that, but that's the goal.
Chase Utley
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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 -
The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of these social lies against which an independent, intelligent men must wage war. Who is it that constitute the majority of the population in a country? Is it the clever folk, or the stupid? I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
Henrik Ibsen -
The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
Felix Dennis -
The first thing that is necessary for economic growth to be boosted is a stable government, a strong majority in the next parliament.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis -
Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.
Aristotle -
Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?
Socrates
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The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful.
Brian Tracy -
The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
We definitely have a majority in the Senate for McCain-Feingold, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.
Joe Lieberman -
The majority of my work is about preparation.
Taryn Simon