Majority Quotes
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Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.
Saint Augustine -
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
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The overwhelming majority of my rated wealth consists of investments in companies that produce goods and services.
J. Paul Getty -
We shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.
Barack Obama -
We have learned that a majority of parents whose children have late-onset or acquired autism believe it is vaccine-related. They deserve answers. We have also learned that the parents have been our best investigators in looking for both causes of autism and for treatments.
Dan Burton -
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
Henrik Ibsen -
I devote my life to the rebirth of the Jewish State, with a Jewish majority, on both sides of the Jordan.
Ze'ev Jabotinsky -
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
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History has never been dominated by majorities, but only by dedicated minorities who stand unconditionally on their faith.
R.J. Rushdoony -
I just think the whole message within the song fits with today's themes. It fits with the majority of stuff that David writes about.
Dan Donegan Disturbed -
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 -
As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation's resources over a long period of time to make that right.
Barack Obama -
My resolution, standing with the vast majority of Americans who know we can and must be safer, is to cede no ground to those who would convince us the path is too steep, or we too weak.
Gabrielle Giffords -
I'm much more convinced that the hierarchy comes from the monarchy, and that the hierarchy stays apart from the oligarchy. So the oligarchy is hurtful to the majority in Bolivia.
Evo Morales
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Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning.
George Lincoln Rockwell -
Decision by majorities is as much an expedient as lighting by gas.
William E. Gladstone -
Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.
Gary North -
Between 1994 and the year 2000, when the Republican majority was in control of the House of Representatives, President Clinton played House Speaker Newt Gringrich like a violin!
Ed Crane -
The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.
Leonard Peikoff -
I love San Francisco. Last season we shot for about a week and a half up in the Bay area. But the majority of our show is shot here in LA.
Nancy McKeon
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No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.
Abraham Lincoln -
If you are going to ask me what I watch on TV, I would probably have to say the majority of it is stuff on SyFy or Discovery Channel or it's about ghost seekers.
Boti Bliss -
The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.
T. S. Eliot -
The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is entirely possible that examples of life as we don't know it have so far been overlooked.
Paul Davies