Majority Quotes
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One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
It does not help the vast majority of Americans, but it does really well for people already at the top. Well, we're going to turn that upside down. We're going to make the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes for a change.
Hillary Clinton
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Stephen Harper, who's the prime minister of Canada, he is saying that this - we have to give him a majority government, otherwise there will be a Separatist coalition. And he says it every minute.
Rick Mercer -
The majority of people do not accept my choices.
Nadya Suleman -
For there is one thing we must never forget... the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.
Adolf Hitler -
We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it.
Sigmund Freud -
Second, recent polls over there show that the majority of Iraqis want us to leave precipitously.
William Odom -
The majority of my training was as a drummer, and drummers are basically accompanists.
Z'EV
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Death joins us to the great majority.
Edward Joseph Young -
Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer live the majority of all the plant species, the vast majority of the insects, most of the strange ... quadrupeds, all of the great and most of the poisonous snakes and large lizards, most of the brilliantly colored sea fishes, and the strangest and most gorgeously plumaged of the birds.
David Fairchild -
H'aint we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?
Mark Twain -
I want to - on behalf of myself, and I think on behalf of a majority of the American people, say that, you know, our word is good.
Hillary Clinton -
A recent poll shows that a majority of blacks, whites, Asians and Hispanics do not think the Census should be classifying people as black, white, Asian and Hispanic.
Thomas Sowell -
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I don't know what age the people who review my concerts reached puberty, I don't know if people in America reach puberty a lot later than they do in England or something like that, but the majority of those people are in their late teens and early twenties.
George Michael -
Equality is attainable as long as you are part of the majority.
William James -
To fight like we fought the majority of the game and then for that to happen to us with 4.9 seconds on the clock is just devastating.
Allen Iverson -
Don't make decisions by majority vote. The majority is almost always wrong.
Adrian Rogers -
Many of us are experiencing a phase of change, shedding outdated patterns and liberating ourselves from the old by moving on to the new. The year 2012 is an important one for mankind, a pivotal year. The potential for this exists in the mere fact that the majority of us are yearning for change.
Shari Arison -
For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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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.
Edwidge Danticat -
It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.
Napoleon Hill -
The vast majority of people that have gotten mad at me for a joke that I've made were people that were, A, never going to see me in the first place, or, B, were dragged to see me by somebody else.
Brad Williams -
The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
William Osler